The 2020 Legal Industry Disaster that Didn’t Happen; Implications for Lateral Hiring

In March 2020, wise observers were predicting profound financial underperformance by most firms and the collapse of some. Essentially, none of that happened. And a lateral partner hiring market that came to a halt early in the pandemic roared back—and keeps roaring into the new year.

In this 30-minute webinar, Keith Wetmore (former chief executive partner of Morrison & Foerster LLP) and his colleague Richard Hsu (former partner at Shearman & Sterling and host of Hsu Untied) reviewed what went so right with 2020, who was hiring and who was moving in Northern California, and what the prospects are for the lateral market in 2021.