The New York City Legal Market Analysis Report
Competitive Landscape, Client Base, and Outlook for 2026 and Beyond Executive Summary New York remains the largest and most consequential legal market in the United States. As of December 2024, the city hosted 260 NLJ 500 office locations and 29,352 attorneys, more than any other U.S. market, with 74% of the Am Law 200 and 52% of the NLJ 500maintaining a […]
August 2026 Am Law 200 Lateral Market Analysis
This report analyzes attorney lateral movement across Am Law 200 firms in the United States for August 2026. The dataset, sourced from Leopard Solutions, tracks inbound and outbound lateral moves across 22 practice areas. The month recorded 1,258 attorney entries and 2,009 exits, resulting in a net outflow of 751 attorneys, the second-largest monthly net […]
Charlotte’s Legal Market: A Landscape Ripe for Strategic Attorney Opportunities
The Charlotte legal market has quietly emerged as one of the more intriguing opportunities in the United States, not because it’s the biggest or most saturated market, but precisely because it isn’t. For attorneys and firms evaluating where to plant a flag or grow an existing footprint, Charlotte’s 2026 profile tells a story of measured […]
July 2026 Am Law 200 Lateral Market Analysis
This report analyzes attorney lateral movement across Am Law 200 firms in the United States for July 2026. The dataset, sourced from Leopard Solutions, tracks inbound and outbound lateral moves across 22 practice areas. The month recorded 1,273 attorney entries and 2,087 exits, resulting in a net outflow of 814 attorneys, the largest monthly net […]
Employee Spotlight: Steven Rushing
Steven Rushing didn’t set out to become a legal recruiter. He set out to become an IP attorney, and he was a good one. Somewhere between the boutique IP shops and the full-service BigLaw floors though, he realized something: he was more interested in the careers of the lawyers around him than in the practice […]
June 2026 Am Law 200 Lateral Market Analysis
This report analyzes attorney lateral movement across Am Law 200 firms in the United States for June 2026. The dataset, sourced from Leopard Solutions, tracks inbound and outbound lateral moves across 22 practice areas. The month recorded 1,613 attorney entries and 1,751 exits, resulting in a net outflow of 138 attorneys across the Am Law […]
Employee Spotlight: Richard Lock
Some careers cross borders. Richard Lock’s has crossed an ocean. With over thirteen years in legal recruiting split between the UK and the United States, Richard Lock brings a genuinely rare perspective to his work as a Senior Director at Lateral Link. He started from the ground up, placing contract attorneys into public sector and […]
May 2026 Am Law 200 Lateral Market Analysis
May 2026 marks a notable inflection point in the Q2 lateral market. After three consecutive months of broad-based net attrition, with February and March each exceeding -590 in net outflow and April improving to -351, May narrows the deficit further and shows a pronounced broadening of positive practice area performance. Labor & Employment, Trusts & […]
The Future of Legal Recruiting: More Data, More Insight, Better Placements
How the convergence of AI, connected intelligence, and human judgment is reshaping the legal talent landscape, and what it means for firms, candidates, and the profession itself. The View From Here This series began with a premise: that the legal recruiting profession is undergoing a transformation that is not merely technological, but structural. Over the […]
Who Pays a Legal Recruiter?
It is one of the first questions attorneys ask when they start thinking about working with a legal recruiter and one of the most important ones to get a clear answer on before the process begins. Who actually pays the recruiter? Is there a fee involved for candidates? And does working through a recruiter affect […]