Associate Attrition News Today

Associates are sticking around for longer than firms expected....

Attrition rate for people of colour 'notably higher,' said report with US and Canadian data

While hiring and attrition of law firm associates have decreased from the historic high levels reported in 2021, they remained above levels from previous years in 2022, according to the NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education’s annual Update on Associate Attrition report released Tuesday.

Changing geographic locations was a big prompt for associates to leave their firms.

A client recently asked me an interesting question, 'How much should we counteroffer an associate who has given notice?'

Associates left law firms in 2021 at a rate that reached a historic high, though firms also hired significantly more associates last year, according to an attrition report released Tuesday by the NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education.

Afternoon Briefs: ABA Journal Board of Editors selects next leader; associate hiring drops during pandemic   Meet the next chair of the ABA Journal Board of Editors The ABA Journal Board of Editors has selected a new Chair, retired Judge Herbert B. Dixon Jr., who will take over the post from the current Chair, Alice E. Richmond, after the ABA Annual Meeting in August. Dixon is a senior judge on the District of Columbia Superior Court who retired from active service in 2015 after 30 years on th...