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title: Insights | Baretz+Brunelle
description: Baretz & Brunelle Insights
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# Insights

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### [Partner Jason Milch Published in The American Lawyer: “Rethinking Law Firm Client Service in the AI Era”](https://blog.baretzbrunelle.com/insights/jason-milch-authors-rethinking-law-firm-client-service-in-the-ai-era)

03.04.2026

 In a recent article for The American Lawyer, Baretz+Brunelle partner Jason Milch discusses a phenomenon happening across the legal industry: as law firms adopt AI tools, they find that decisions around technology, pricing, staffing, workflow, and risk increasingly overlap. Choices that once felt...  
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### [The Financial and Political Risks of Lateral Hiring](https://blog.baretzbrunelle.com/insights/the-financial-and-political-risks-of-lateral-hiring)

07.19.2025

 With studies pointing to failure rates hovering between 50 to 60%, lateral equity partner hiring remains one of the riskiest moves a law firm can make—despite its potential for big rewards.  
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### [The Newest Law Firm Partner: Private Equity](https://blog.baretzbrunelle.com/insights/newest-law-firm-partner-private-equity)

10.21.2024

 In a recent New York Law Journal article, Howard Rosenberg, partner and head of Baretz+Brunelle’s Talent Intelligence & Acquisitions practice, details a potential trend coming to legal: the involvement of private equity funding in lateral hiring. As Howard shares, with law firms relying more than...  
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### [What NFL Draft Picks Have in Common with Lateral Hires](https://blog.baretzbrunelle.com/insights/what-nfl-draft-picks-have-in-common-with-lateral-hires)

09.12.2024

 A recent analysis found that half the quarterbacks selected as first-round NFL draft picks turn out to be busts. Lateral partner hiring has a similar failure rate: nearly 50% of lateral partners leave their new law firm within five years. In both industries, evaluators tend to prioritize...  
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### [Baretz+Brunelle Research Uncovers Hidden Trend: 35% of Am Law 100 Firms Are Also Providing ‘Alternative’ Legal Services](https://blog.baretzbrunelle.com/insights/new-law-practice-group-launches-captive-alsp-report)

10.06.2020

 NEW YORK – October 6, 2020 – The world’s largest law firms have been quietly mobilizing to recapture billions in revenue that has flowed in recent years to technology-driven upstarts known as alternative legal service providers, according to a report released today by Baretz+Brunelle, a leading...  
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