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New Year Brings a Surge of Lateral Hires
The first few weeks of 2008 already have marked an abundance of lateral hires among partners making a switch for better opportunities -- or so they hope -- at some of the nation's biggest law firms. So far the areas of practice for lateral hires are across the board, though movement in bankruptcy and finance already look particularly active. In one of the more prominent switches, DLA Piper has recruited William Goldman from Sidley Austin to join its restructuring and bankruptcy practice group in New York.