St. Louis: lateral market monitor

In the Sartori & Partners lateral record, 59 lawyers joined a new firm in St. Louis from November 2025 to October 2026, 0.4% of all lateral moves we tracked. On settled windows the count went from 67 to 55 (-17.9%), a change inside the noise of the two counts, so we read it as flat.

At 18.6%, partners are a smaller slice of arrivals than in the market as a whole (27.7%). 10.2% of movers stepped up a level when they changed firm, against 12.9% for the market.

32 firms hired at least one lateral in St. Louis in the window. Ten firms account for 57.6% of arrivals, against 12.9% across the market: concentrated. Sandberg Phoenix & Von Gontard ranks first by lateral arrivals, in the 6-10 band.

By practice, Litigation & Disputes comes first, involved in 49.2% of arrivals here (39.9% across the market). A change of city came with 12.5% of moves (market 20.5%).

With volume in St. Louis holding level, a hire depends on a specific reason to move, which a firm has to put in front of the candidate.