Legal recruiting firm, Lateral Link, with offices across the United States and in Asia, today announced that noted legal journalist David Lat has joined as a managing director in the New York office. Lat will represent and place top associates, partners and partner groups into preeminent law firms around the country.
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“Given the increasing prevalence and importance of lateral lawyer movement, this is an exciting time to enter legal recruiting, and I’m thrilled to join Lateral Link, one of the world’s top legal search firms,” Lat said. “We’ve worked together since 2007, when Lateral Link became ATL’s first advertiser, and since then our brands have grown from disruptive upstarts into two of the most successful and respected names in our fields.”
In 2006, Lat founded Above the Law (“ATL”), one of the largest legal news websites in the United States, with approximately 1.3 million unique visitors per month. He served as managing editor from 2006 to 2017, during which time both he and ATL received awards and recognition from the American Lawyer, the ABA Journal, the Weblog Awards, and the Webby Awards, among others. Today Above the Law is owned by Breaking Media, a network of websites and social-media channels for influential, affluent business communities.
Prior to founding ATL, Lat launched Underneath Their Robes, a prominent blog about federal judges that he wrote under a pseudonym before revealing his identity in an interview with the New Yorker magazine. Before entering the media world, Lat worked as a federal prosecutor, a litigation associate at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in New York, and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Lat graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School.
Lat’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, and the Times described his book Supreme Ambitions as “the most buzzed-about novel of the year” among legal elites. Lat will continue to write, for both ATL and other publications, and to accept speaking engagements from law firms for firm-wide retreats, partner retreats, summer associate events, and diversity initiatives.
