Wake Up Call: Some Firms Try to Hide Talent From Hot Market

In today’s column, a big Australian firm hiked salaries 15% for all its lawyers; plaintiffs firms are using mass arbitration to take on companies that block class actions by consumers and employees; lawsuits are piling up in the wake of the crowd surge that killed at least eight people at the Astroworld Festival in Houston.

• Leading off, some law firms desperate to hold onto their talent in a hot lateral market are trying to hide lawyers from the competition. Some try to keep lawyers off LinkedIn or other kinds of networking while one firm even wanted to remove associates’ bios ...