Moving Targets: Which Markets Will Attract Law Firms’ Attention in 2020
Published by The American Lawyer, January 2, 2020
Lisa Smith is quoted.”We are continuing to see firms anywhere from 100 lawyers to 600 to 700 lawyers feel like they need more scale in order to compete effectively,” says Lisa Smith, a principal at Fairfax Associates. “I think we’ll continue to see consolidation in the form of laterals and groups or small acquisitions or mergers of equal size. Consolidation is going to continue to be big in 2020.”