{"id":157968,"date":"2026-07-23T13:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/23\/kirkland-plans-to-play-to-win-in-biglaws-ai-talent-war\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:01:35","slug":"kirkland-plans-to-play-to-win-in-biglaws-ai-talent-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/23\/kirkland-plans-to-play-to-win-in-biglaws-ai-talent-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkland Plans To \u2018Play To Win\u2019 In Biglaw\u2019s AI Talent War"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

You will definitely see more hires. You hear a lot about the talent war, and we plan to play to win. We are always in the market for top-level talent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0<\/i><\/span>Michelle Kelban<\/a>, a New York-based real estate partner at Kirkland & Ellis, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s increase in hiring across its real assets practice group, a combination of Kirkland\u2019s real estate practice with its infrastructure, energy and minerals\/mining teams. Real estate partners are in high demand thanks to the proliferation of AI data centers. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is 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 email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Kirkland Plans To \u2018Play To Win\u2019 In Biglaw\u2019s AI Talent War<\/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

You will definitely see more hires. You hear a lot about the talent war, and we plan to play to win. We are always in the market for top-level talent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0<\/i>Michelle Kelban<\/a>, a New York-based real estate partner at Kirkland & Ellis, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s increase in hiring across its real assets practice group, a combination of Kirkland\u2019s real estate practice with its infrastructure, energy and minerals\/mining teams. Real estate partners are in high demand thanks to the proliferation of AI data centers. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is 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 email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. You will definitely see more hires. You hear a lot about the talent war, and we plan to play to win. We are always in the market for top-level talent. \u2014\u00a0Michelle Kelban, a New York-based real estate partner at Kirkland & Ellis, in comments given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157969,"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-157968","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\/07\/Staci-Zaretsky-L7dQBA.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157968","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=157968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}