{"id":135545,"date":"2025-10-20T16:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/20\/its-open-season-for-new-partners-to-be-recruited-in-biglaws-free-agency-era\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:51:16","slug":"its-open-season-for-new-partners-to-be-recruited-in-biglaws-free-agency-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/20\/its-open-season-for-new-partners-to-be-recruited-in-biglaws-free-agency-era\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s \u2018Open Season\u2019 For New Partners To Be Recruited In Biglaw\u2019s \u2018Free-Agency Era\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[When someone is promoted to partner] they immediately start getting a lot more calls just by virtue of the title. When firms have their eye on somebody, they aren\u2019t deterred if the person made partner a few months ago. The promotion is seen as an endorsement and it\u2019s still open season.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Dan Binstock<\/a>, a recruiter and partner at Washington, D.C.-based Garrison, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning the demand for new partners, even if they\u2019re recently promoted. All partners, even those who are new to the role, may be considered \u201cripe\u201d for recruitment in Biglaw\u2019s \u201cfree-agency era.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post It\u2019s \u2018Open Season\u2019 For New Partners To Be Recruited In Biglaw\u2019s \u2018Free-Agency Era\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[When someone is promoted to partner] they immediately start getting a lot more calls just by virtue of the title. When firms have their eye on somebody, they aren\u2019t deterred if the person made partner a few months ago. The promotion is seen as an endorsement and it\u2019s still open season.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Dan Binstock<\/a>, a recruiter and partner at Washington, D.C.-based Garrison, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning the demand for new partners, even if they\u2019re recently promoted. All partners, even those who are new to the role, may be considered \u201cripe\u201d for recruitment in Biglaw\u2019s \u201cfree-agency era.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post It\u2019s \u2018Open Season\u2019 For New Partners To Be Recruited In Biglaw\u2019s \u2018Free-Agency Era\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. [When someone is promoted to partner] they immediately start getting a lot more calls just by virtue of the title. When firms have their eye on somebody, they aren\u2019t deterred if the person made partner a few months ago. The promotion is seen as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Staci-Zaretsky-eyzRuT.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}