Law360, New York ( April 5, 2017, 4:57 PM EDT) -- By now, I hope we've all looked in the mirror and seen our own reflection as it relates to our respective lateral recruitment efforts. It is, of course, interesting to see the results of a number of the surveys and much of the research done around the topic of lateral partner recruiting. Some focus on the very simple question of whether firms consider their lateral partner recruitments to have been "successful" or "profitable." Others focus on why lateral partners are leaving their firms, and, based on actual research, rank the factors that appear most important to a lateral partner's decision to leave. What is interesting, though, is that virtually all of the focus on the "success" of lateral partner recruiting in general, or why lateral partners consider moving in the first place, is on the individual lateral partner and not the firm....