City monitor · November 2026
Leeds: lateral market monitor
Lawyers who joined a new firm in Leeds over the last 12 months: how many, at what level, in which practices and with which firms.
The last 12 months: November 2025 to October 2026
- 68
- Lateral moves, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- +9.2%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- 35.3%
- Partner share of moves
- 27
- Firms that hired
What the data show
Sartori & Partners data show 68 lateral moves in Leeds from November 2025 to October 2026, 0.5% of all lateral moves we tracked. On settled windows the count went from 65 to 71 (+9.2%), a change inside the noise of the two counts, so we read it as flat.
Partners make up 35.3% of arrivals, against 27.7% across the market: a partner-heavy flow. 14.7% of movers stepped up a level when they changed firm, against 12.9% for the market.
- Partner35.3%
- Counsel10.3%
- Associate54.4%
27 firms hired at least one lateral in Leeds in the window. Ten firms account for 58.8% of arrivals, against 12.9% across the market: concentrated. Hill Dickinson ranks first by lateral arrivals, in the 6-10 band.
By practice, Litigation & Disputes comes first, involved in 33.8% of arrivals here (39.9% across the market). 33.3% of movers also changed city, against 20.5% market-wide.
With volume in Leeds holding level, a hire depends on a specific reason to move, which a firm has to put in front of the candidate.
Firms by rank and band
Each firm appears as a rank and a band, never an exact count, and only with at least 10 moves in the window.
| Rank | Firm | Moves (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hill Dickinson | 6-10 |
| 2 | Brodies | 3-5 |
| 3 | Addleshaw Goddard | 3-5 |
| 4 | DWF | 3-5 |
| 5 | Mills & Reeve | 3-5 |
| 6 | DAC Beachcroft | 3-5 |
| 7 | Eversheds Sutherland | 3-5 |
| 8 | Womble Bond Dickinson | 3-5 |
| 9 | Weightmans | 3-5 |
| 10 | Knights | 3-5 |
Related monitors and reports
Practices in Leeds
- Litigation & Disputes23 moves
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Reports
- Leeds Lateral Partners 2026: A Larger Share Than Manchester or London
More than a third of Leeds lateral moves were partner moves over 12 months, 35.3% against 27.7% across the market, while overall volume held flat. Firms of 400-999 lawyers took the largest share of the hiring.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026
Edition November 2026. Window: November 2025 to October 2026. Source: Sartori & Partners, from public law-firm announcements, firm websites and professional profiles, checked monthly. Methodology. Spot an error? [email protected].
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