{"id":141610,"date":"2026-01-12T15:35:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/12\/after-failed-merger-this-top-biglaw-firm-is-single-and-may-still-be-looking\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:35:26","slug":"after-failed-merger-this-top-biglaw-firm-is-single-and-may-still-be-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/12\/after-failed-merger-this-top-biglaw-firm-is-single-and-may-still-be-looking\/","title":{"rendered":"After Failed Merger, This Top Biglaw Firm Is Single And May Still Be Looking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The firm\u2019s fine, I don\u2019t view this as the firm being jilted or left at the altar or anything like that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Jon Truster, a partner at recruiting firm Macrae, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning where Alston & Bird\u2019s headspace is in the wake of its failed merger talks with Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft<\/a>. Cadwalader instead decided to combine with Hogan Lovells<\/a>, for what\u2019s believed to be the largest law firm merger in history. Truster pointed out that Alston had grown its New York headcount to about 200 lawyers, and said that \u201cthe right large group of lawyers would be very appealing to Alston and any other firm in New York of that size.\u201d <\/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\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her 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 After Failed Merger, This Top Biglaw Firm Is Single And May Still Be Looking<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The firm\u2019s fine, I don\u2019t view this as the firm being jilted or left at the altar or anything like that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Jon Truster, a partner at recruiting firm Macrae, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning where Alston & Bird\u2019s headspace is in the wake of its failed merger talks with Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft<\/a>. Cadwalader instead decided to combine with Hogan Lovells<\/a>, for what\u2019s believed to be the largest law firm merger in history. Truster pointed out that Alston had grown its New York headcount to about 200 lawyers, and said that \u201cthe right large group of lawyers would be very appealing to Alston and any other firm in New York of that size.\u201d <\/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\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. The firm\u2019s fine, I don\u2019t view this as the firm being jilted or left at the altar or anything like that. \u2014\u00a0Jon Truster, a partner at recruiting firm Macrae, in comments given to the American Lawyer, concerning where Alston & Bird\u2019s headspace is in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141592,"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-141610","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\/2026\/01\/Staci-Zaretsky-lER95p.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141610","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=141610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}