{"id":144487,"date":"2026-02-19T14:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/19\/top-biglaw-firm-gets-a-mega-merger-reality-check-some-partners-will-leave\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:10:29","slug":"top-biglaw-firm-gets-a-mega-merger-reality-check-some-partners-will-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/19\/top-biglaw-firm-gets-a-mega-merger-reality-check-some-partners-will-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Biglaw Firm Gets A Mega-Merger Reality Check: \u2018Some Partners Will Leave\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Some Perkins Coie partners will leave\u2014that\u2019s not unusual in a merger of this scale. You simply can\u2019t please all of the people, all of the time. The real question isn\u2019t whether there\u2019s attrition, but whether the firm retains the people and client relationships that matter most to the future strategy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Moray McLaren, a lawyer and partner at Madrid\u2019s Lexington Consultants, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning the Perkins Coie partners who are reportedly having second thoughts<\/a> about the firm\u2019s planned transatlantic tie-up<\/a> with Ashurst. Sources say \u201ctons of Perkins partners\u201d are now on the market, and nearly two dozen have already left the firm. One current Perkins partner has referred to impending merger as \u201ca monumental f\u2014 up.\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\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 Top Biglaw Firm Gets A Mega-Merger Reality Check: \u2018Some Partners Will Leave\u2019<\/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

Some Perkins Coie partners will leave\u2014that\u2019s not unusual in a merger of this scale. You simply can\u2019t please all of the people, all of the time. The real question isn\u2019t whether there\u2019s attrition, but whether the firm retains the people and client relationships that matter most to the future strategy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Moray McLaren, a lawyer and partner at Madrid\u2019s Lexington Consultants, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning the Perkins Coie partners who are reportedly about the firm\u2019s planned transatlantic tie-up<\/a> with Ashurst. Sources say \u201ctons of Perkins partners\u201d are now on the market, and nearly two dozen have already left the firm. One current Perkins partner has referred to impending merger as \u201ca monumental f\u2014 up.\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\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. Some Perkins Coie partners will leave\u2014that\u2019s not unusual in a merger of this scale. You simply can\u2019t please all of the people, all of the time. The real question isn\u2019t whether there\u2019s attrition, but whether the firm retains the people and client relationships that matter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144488,"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-144487","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\/02\/Staci-Zaretsky-Nv6xLD.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144487","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=144487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}