{"id":147563,"date":"2026-03-30T15:44:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/30\/biglaw-firms-are-starting-to-get-nervous-about-deal-work-inventory\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:44:54","slug":"biglaw-firms-are-starting-to-get-nervous-about-deal-work-inventory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/30\/biglaw-firms-are-starting-to-get-nervous-about-deal-work-inventory\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw Firms Are Starting To Get \u2018Nervous\u2019 About Deal Work Inventory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

There\u2019s more warning signs popping up, even on the strategic side<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Virtually every managing partner I know [is] more careful about predicting how well their firm is going to do this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Blane Prescott, law firm management consultant at MesaFive,\u00a0in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning deal work inventory this year, and the lack thereof for certain firms. Compared to this time last year, some law firms are \u201csuddenly see their workloads getting a little lighter,\u201d he said, \u201cand that\u2019s started to make them nervous.\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 Biglaw Firms Are Starting To Get \u2018Nervous\u2019 About Deal Work Inventory<\/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

There\u2019s more warning signs popping up, even on the strategic side<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Virtually every managing partner I know [is] more careful about predicting how well their firm is going to do this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Blane Prescott, law firm management consultant at MesaFive,\u00a0in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning deal work inventory this year, and the lack thereof for certain firms. Compared to this time last year, some law firms are \u201csuddenly see their workloads getting a little lighter,\u201d he said, \u201cand that\u2019s started to make them nervous.\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. There\u2019s more warning signs popping up, even on the strategic side. Virtually every managing partner I know [is] more careful about predicting how well their firm is going to do this year. \u2014\u00a0 Blane Prescott, law firm management consultant at MesaFive,\u00a0in comments given to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147564,"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-147563","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-QAGjFx.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147563","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=147563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}