Pirical Rankings

Partner retention is a vital metric for law firms so we've decided to take a look at how lateral Partner retention compares across the AM Law 100 and uncover the firms with the strongest retention rates over the last 5 years, as well as any key trends among the hires that ultimately don't work out. Using publicly-available data tracked by Pirical Legal Professionals (PLP) , we've analysed how many of the lateral Partner hires made by AM Law 100 firms between 2020-2024 are still at the firm. Note on methodology: excludes firms that made fewer than 10 lateral Partner hires and moves as a result of mergers. Data is derived from tracked lateral Partner moves, numbers may be slightly incomplete due to limited public information. Exits include Partners that left but didn't lateral to another firm, eg. retired.