{"id":152388,"date":"2026-05-19T15:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/19\/biglaws-growth-game-comes-with-cuts-too\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:20:59","slug":"biglaws-growth-game-comes-with-cuts-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/19\/biglaws-growth-game-comes-with-cuts-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw\u2019s Growth Game Comes With Cuts, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

There are no sacred cows. We need to continue to evaluate how the industry is changing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Yvette Ostolaza<\/a>, chair of Sidley Austin\u2019s management committee, in comments given during a recent appearance on Bloomberg Law\u2019s On the Merits podcast<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s growth strategy and its willingness to move on from practices and markets that no longer align with its long-term trajectory.<\/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\u2019s Growth Game Comes With Cuts, Too<\/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 are no sacred cows. We need to continue to evaluate how the industry is changing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Yvette Ostolaza<\/a>, chair of Sidley Austin\u2019s management committee, in comments given during a recent appearance on Bloomberg Law\u2019s On the Merits podcast<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s growth strategy and its willingness to move on from practices and markets that no longer align with its long-term trajectory.<\/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\u2019s Growth Game Comes With Cuts, Too<\/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. There are no sacred cows. We need to continue to evaluate how the industry is changing. \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Yvette Ostolaza, chair of Sidley Austin\u2019s management committee, in comments given during a recent appearance on Bloomberg Law\u2019s On the Merits podcast, concerning the firm\u2019s growth strategy and its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152389,"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-152388","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\/05\/Staci-Zaretsky-jjspvE.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152388","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=152388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}