Monday BigLaw Merry-Go-Round (Dec. 7, 2015)

Recent reports on lateral hires, financial data, salaries, and hiring trends in BigLaw.

• "Slight Increase of Minority Lawyers at Big Texas Firms," Texas Lawyer

• "Dickstein Shapiro Talking Tie-Up With Multiple Suitors," Law.com 

• "Milbank Grooms Midlevel Associates for Success at Harvard," The American Lawyer

• "Law Firms [Slowly] in Transition," Slaw 

• "Morgan Lewis Boasts Steady Profits, No Debt on Anniversary of Bingham Deal," The American Lawyer

• "On the Rise: Rates, Revenues, Profits and Salaries Booming at PA Firms," The Legal Intelligencer

• "Foreign Law Firms Grab a Share of Canada's Legal Market," The American Lawyer

• "Firm Leaders Are Optimistic Going Into 2016," The American Lawyer

• "How to Size Up Sectors and Practices for Future Growth," The American Lawyer

• "Growth Won't Solve Your Firm's Problems: Harvard Business Prof," The American Lawyer

• "Lawyer Career Coach Shares Rainmaking Advice," Daily Report

• "Pittsburgh has second-lowest number of minority law partners in US," Pittsburgh Business Times

• "Is the Legal Profession Going Backwards on Diversity?," Bloomberg BNA
  • "Diversity Reversing in law firms," Today's General Counsel
  • "Wake Up Call: Black Associates Fall Behind at Law Firms," Bloomberg
  • "Boston law firms making slow progress on partner diversity," Boston Business Journal
  • "Women, Blacks Losing Ground in BigLaw Associate Ranks," Law360

• "Big Law Flirts With Office-Less Future," The Recorder