En Masse Defection of 15 lawyers from Wilkie Farr - To A Client!

I have never seen anything quite like this before. We see lawyers going from private practice to supposedly greener pastures of in-house land all the time, with sometimes a partner brining on an associate or other colleague for good measure. But 15 lawyers? This is significant and is indicative (on steroids) of the "in-sourcing" movement, corporations doing more of the legal work by their own employees as opposed to traditional use of high priced law firms.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/10/28/bloomberg-breaks-off-a-piece-of-willkie-farr/