{"id":135887,"date":"2025-10-27T04:17:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/27\/a-lsquoruthless-competition-as-big-law-becomes-more-corporate-some-firm-leaders-see-pitfalls-for-profession\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T04:17:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:17:44","slug":"a-lsquoruthless-competition-as-big-law-becomes-more-corporate-some-firm-leaders-see-pitfalls-for-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/27\/a-lsquoruthless-competition-as-big-law-becomes-more-corporate-some-firm-leaders-see-pitfalls-for-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"A ‘Ruthless’ Competition: As Big Law Becomes More Corporate, Some Firm Leaders See Pitfalls for Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"

The continued focus on profits, rainmaking laterals, client mobility and a general lack of cohesion in modern partnerships have some law firm leaders believing there is no going back.<\/p>\n

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The continued focus on profits, rainmaking laterals, client mobility and a general lack of cohesion in modern partnerships have some law firm leaders believing there is no going back.<\/p>\n

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The continued focus on profits, rainmaking laterals, client mobility and a general lack of cohesion in modern partnerships have some law firm leaders believing there is no going back. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The continued focus on profits, rainmaking laterals, client mobility and a general lack of cohesion in modern partnerships have some law firm leaders believing there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135888,"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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/legal-news-a0WrJO.jpg?fit=620%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135887","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=135887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}