Amidst the bad news in the legal world of 2009, there appears to be some positive news. The time period of 12 months ending on September 30th 2009 had 2,775 partners join or leave BigLaw firms. This number increased by 10.6 from the year before.  A total of 17 percent of the partner lateral moves consisted of litigation lawyers.  Banking and Finance partners trailed closely behind with 15 percent. Corporate partners composed 10 percent of the total partner moves.

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