{"id":145712,"date":"2026-03-10T09:15:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/10\/insiders-say-this-top-10-biglaw-firms-partner-hiring-blitz-has-big-kirkland-energy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:15:03","slug":"insiders-say-this-top-10-biglaw-firms-partner-hiring-blitz-has-big-kirkland-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/10\/insiders-say-this-top-10-biglaw-firms-partner-hiring-blitz-has-big-kirkland-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Insiders Say This Top 10 Biglaw Firm\u2019s Partner Hiring Blitz Has Big Kirkland Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

It feels like it\u2019s trying to become the next Kirkland. If that\u2019s the plan, Godspeed. But it wasn\u2019t for me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0A person reportedly familiar with Sidley\u2019s international growth strategy, in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s rapid acquisition of high-profile partners in London. Yvette Ostolaza<\/a>,\u00a0Sidley\u2019s management committee chair, said the firm had \u201cwelcomed close to 50 lawyers from Latham.\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 Insiders Say This Top 10 Biglaw Firm\u2019s Partner Hiring Blitz Has Big Kirkland Energy<\/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

It feels like it\u2019s trying to become the next Kirkland. If that\u2019s the plan, Godspeed. But it wasn\u2019t for me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0A person reportedly familiar with Sidley\u2019s international growth strategy, in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s rapid acquisition of high-profile partners in London. Yvette Ostolaza<\/a>,\u00a0Sidley\u2019s management committee chair, said the firm had \u201cwelcomed close to 50 lawyers from Latham.\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

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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. It feels like it\u2019s trying to become the next Kirkland. If that\u2019s the plan, Godspeed. But it wasn\u2019t for me. \u2014\u00a0A person reportedly familiar with Sidley\u2019s international growth strategy, in comments given to Law.com, concerning the firm\u2019s rapid acquisition of high-profile partners in London. Yvette […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145661,"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-145712","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\/03\/Staci-Zaretsky-zenrWw.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145712","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=145712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}