Top US law firms have made a new a record. Legal Week has calculated a total of 2,509 partner laterals in the span of 2008.  This number includes laterals from firm mergers, as well as those taken in by dissolved firms.  K&L Gates tops the list with 185 partner laterals.  Reed Smith comes in second with 74, DLA Piper has had 58, followed by Jones Day with 57. Akin Gump has lost more partners than all other firm’s with its grand loss of 59 partners.  Heller Ehrman comes in second with 47 and Thelen, who has lost 46, comes in third.  Following Thelen, Mayer Brown has lost 45 partners.

Source:   www.legalweek.com