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2 BigLaw companies make mass lateral hires involving not less than 52 attorneys
August 6, 2025, 1:48 pm CDT
Crowell & Moring and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer are hiring giant teams of attorneys from different regulation companies. (Picture from Shutterstock)
Crowell & Moring and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer are hiring giant teams of attorneys from different regulation companies.
A bunch of 16 well being care litigation companions has made the leap from Reed Smith to Crowell & Moring, Legislation.com studies. However the complete will surpass 40 attorneys, serving to set up the “premier well being observe within the nation,” Crowell advised the authorized publication.
A Reed Smith spokesperson advised Legislation.com that the departures “will permit us to strengthen our deep roots within the well being care trade by eradicating sure conflicts.”
The second agency, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, is “raiding Okay&L Gates’ West Coast expertise” with the hiring of not less than 12 companions, Legislation.com studies in a second article.
All however one of many Okay&L Gates attorneys will be part of a brand new Seattle workplace for Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, positioning the agency “to satisfy rising demand for classy authorized counsel within the Pacific Northwest,” stated Michael Daneker, Arnold & Porter’s co-chair, in an announcement cited by Legislation.com.
Julie Anne Halter, Okay&L Gates’ Seattle workplace managing accomplice, advised Legislation.com that the workplace “has been—and can proceed to be—an trade trailblazer within the area.”
In accordance with Legislation.com, BigLaw “has seen a flurry of group lateral strikes in 2025.”
Included within the flurry is Reed Smith’s early 2025 acquisition of 33 attorneys from Morris, Manning & Martin and 4 from Greenberg Traurig. Reed Smith was opening an Atlanta workplace with the brand new hires.
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