{"id":154997,"date":"2026-06-17T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/17\/there-are-a-bunch-more-kirkland-ellis-associates-than-there-used-to-be\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:52:10","slug":"there-are-a-bunch-more-kirkland-ellis-associates-than-there-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/17\/there-are-a-bunch-more-kirkland-ellis-associates-than-there-used-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are A Bunch More Kirkland &amp; Ellis Associates Than There Used To Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How much did Kirkland &amp; Ellis increase its associate ranks in 2025, outstripping the Am Law 100 average of 3%?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The strategy for increasing the associate ranks is built on lateral hires as well as upping first-year associate class by 13% last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/there-are-a-bunch-more-kirkland-ellis-associates-than-there-used-to-be\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There Are A Bunch More Kirkland &amp; Ellis Associates Than There Used To Be<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How much did Kirkland &amp; Ellis increase its associate ranks in 2025, outstripping the Am Law 100 average of 3%?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The strategy for increasing the associate ranks is built on lateral hires as well as upping first-year associate class by 13% last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/there-are-a-bunch-more-kirkland-ellis-associates-than-there-used-to-be\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There Are A Bunch More Kirkland &amp; Ellis Associates Than There Used To Be<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! How much did Kirkland &amp; Ellis increase its associate ranks in 2025, outstripping the Am Law 100 average of 3%? Hint: The strategy for increasing the associate ranks is built on lateral hires as well as upping first-year associate class by 13% last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-154997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154997","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=154997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}