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[I’m] not shocked that there are deferrals taking place [and] undecided that is going to be the final agency that’s going to resolve to defer. [The slowness in VC work is] an unhealthy canary within the coal mine.
— Kate Reder Sheikh, a associate within the affiliate observe group at recruiting agency Main Lindsey & Africa, in feedback given to Law.com, regarding A&O Shearman’s current deferral of associates. Sheikh went on to say that M&A had just lately made fewer than 500 affiliate hires in comparison with greater than 2,000 litigation affiliate hires, and that she’d “by no means seen such an imbalance.”
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