ALM Legal Intelligence

Lateral Partner Moves

The Lateral Partner Moves Database offers vital information about partner movement into and out of the nation's largest and most successful law firms. This crucial indicator of a firm's strengths, weaknesses and changes in particular practice areas contains the following items for each entry:

• Name of partner
• Law firm or Organization (and city) left
• Law firm or Organization (and city) joined
• Position left and joined (e.g. Partner or other position, such as General Counsel, or a political or judicial appointment)
• Practice area
• Month and year of move
• Source of information

Beginning in 2000, The American Lawyer began tracking lateral partner moves in and out of Am Law 200 firms and publishing an annual report. In 2004, in addition to archiving the data from the magazine's annual report, ALM Legal Intelligence began supplementing this data with other published reports of lateral partner moves from other large U.S. and non-U.S. firms, in addition to The Am Law 200. The spreadsheet product is updated monthly.

Methodology/Sources:
Information is gathered from The American Lawyer's annual Lateral Partner Survey report (traditionally published in their February issue, covering lateral moves for the previous year), other legal industry publications, and firm Web sites and press releases.

Buyers receive monthly updates for one year from date of purchase.