{"id":141745,"date":"2026-01-14T06:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/14\/cravath-is-no-longer-immune-to-partner-poaching\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:48:34","slug":"cravath-is-no-longer-immune-to-partner-poaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/14\/cravath-is-no-longer-immune-to-partner-poaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Cravath Is No Longer Immune To Partner Poaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The lateral partner market has gotten more and more active, and we always felt it was a matter of time before it reached the very elite tier of firms<\/strong>. The gloves are off and virtually no one is untouchable anymore. People should get used to seeing that at firms that historically lost very few partners.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Jeffrey Lowe, market president of Washington DC for legal recruitment firm CenterPeak, in comments given to Bloomberg<\/a>, concerning the recent wave of partner departures from Cravath, a firm long known to hold onto attorney talent from the cradle to the grave. As we noted in 2024, it\u2019s no longer a rarity<\/a> for lawyers to leave the firm, and the trend is only seems to be increasing.<\/em><\/strong> \u201cCravath doesn\u2019t really support stars in the same way that other law firms might,\u201d New York legal recruiter Alisa Levin said, \u201cand it\u2019s an opportunity to shine bright elsewhere.\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 Cravath Is No Longer Immune To Partner Poaching<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

The lateral partner market has gotten more and more active, and we always felt it was a matter of time before it reached the very elite tier of firms<\/strong>. The gloves are off and virtually no one is untouchable anymore. People should get used to seeing that at firms that historically lost very few partners.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Jeffrey Lowe, market president of Washington DC for legal recruitment firm CenterPeak, in comments given to Bloomberg<\/a>, concerning the recent wave of partner departures from Cravath, a firm long known to hold onto attorney talent from the cradle to the grave. As we noted in 2024, it\u2019s no longer a rarity<\/a> for lawyers to leave the firm, and the trend is only seems to be increasing.<\/em><\/strong> \u201cCravath doesn\u2019t really support stars in the same way that other law firms might,\u201d New York legal recruiter Alisa Levin said, \u201cand it\u2019s an opportunity to shine bright elsewhere.\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 Cravath Is No Longer Immune To Partner Poaching<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. The lateral partner market has gotten more and more active, and we always felt it was a matter of time before it reached the very elite tier of firms. The gloves are off and virtually no one is untouchable anymore. People should get used to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141669,"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-141745","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-HmbEm5.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141745","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=141745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}