Firms - Corporate Lateral Hiring Forum

[Anonymous User]

It seems like occasioanlly some of the V100 goes on a crazy lateral hiring spree due to the market being hot and a need for midlevels. I think K&E was mentioned previously on here as one of them. What firms are hiring like crazy midlevels these days?

Get on laterally and they have a pretty perfect rundown.

[JHP]

Bumping. I'm curious too.

[Anonymous User]

I know that Bay Area corporate lateral hiring is hot right now. A lot of firms are looking for bodies. Cooley just upped their internal referral bonus to $50k.

[2013]

Do these firms consider non-corporate associates? I keep talking to recruiters and they tell me if I want to retool, I’ll have to drop below market/near-market paying firms because I’m not currently a corporate associate.

[Anonymous User]

Do these firms consider non-corporate associates? I keep talking to recruiters and they tell me if I want to retool, I’ll have to drop below market/near-market paying firms because I’m not currently a corporate associate.

Are you in a corporate-adjacent practice like exec comp or finance? Or are you in litigation? I think it'd be tough as a litigation associate to both lateral and transition from litigation to corporate. That's asking a firm who knows nothing about you to pay you as a mid-level corporate associate when you have the corporate skills of, essentially, a first-year associate. Instead of dropping down the AmLaw list, you could offer to drop a class year or two. But, then again, the lateral market is definitely best for mid-level associates (there are plenty of first-year associates to go around at this point of the year) so maybe your recruiter is right. If you're in a corporate-adjacent specialty, then I think it's a much easier sell since many of the practical skills would carry over (if not the substantive general corporate knowledge).