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Progress by means of laterals and even teams, web of retirements and different departures, is gradual and costly and error-prone. Once we ask corporations to candidly give us a way of what % of the time laterals are profitable, the candid reply is between one in two or one in three.
— Kent Zimmermann, a legislation agency advisor with the Zeughauser Group, in feedback given to Law.com, on the general riskiness concerned in lateral hiring as a legislation agency progress technique.
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