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REPORT

SurePoint's 2025
State of the Legal Industry

Record lateral hiring, M&A, and AI adoption are redefining the legal market.

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What's Inside the Report

SurePoint's 2025 State of the Legal Industry Report delivers a data-driven look at the forces reshaping the legal market, combining key trends with expert insights to help law firms, recruiters, and law schools navigate growth, retention, and operational change.

Lateral and entry-level hiring trends across the Am Law 200 and beyond

Attorney exits and retention benchmarks across associates, counsel, and partners

The rise in law firm mergers and what it signals for the broader market

AI adoption, risk exposure, and the impact on law firms

Strategic actions to help firms compete and adapt moving​ forward

The expansion of non-equity leadership tracks and evolving talent models

“The data tells us that law firms are restructuring themselves in real time—adapting to new competitive pressures, new technologies, and new talent models. 2025 wasn’t defined by one event, but by the acceleration of many forces at once.”
Eric Thurston​
President & CEO, SurePoint​​

Trusted Legal Market Intelligence

The Report leverages SurePoint’s proprietary, continuously updated dataset tracking attorney movement, firm demographics, mergers, diversity, technology adoption, and more across thousands of U.S. law firms.

Access the data, trends, and insights shaping the industry.

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