City monitor · November 2026
Warsaw: lateral market monitor
Lawyers who joined a new firm in Warsaw 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
- 55
- Lateral moves, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- -43.6%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- 12.7%
- Partner share of moves
What the data show
In the Sartori & Partners lateral record, 55 lawyers joined a new firm in Warsaw from November 2025 to October 2026, 0.4% of all lateral moves we tracked. On settled windows the count went from 94 to 53, down 43.6% year on year. That trails the wider market, which moved +9.0%.
Associates carry this flow: partners are 12.7% of arrivals, against 27.7% market-wide.
- Partner12.7%
- Counsel18.2%
- Associate69.1%
The ten firms at the head of the hiring table took 85.5% of arrivals (12.9% market-wide), so hiring here is concentrated. Pinsent Masons ranks first by lateral arrivals, in the 11-20 band.
A change of city came with 15.8% of moves (market 20.5%).
For a firm planning a hire in Warsaw, a quieter market means fewer competing processes but also fewer people already in motion: plan on direct approach.
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 | Pinsent Masons | 11-20 |
| 2 | Greenberg Traurig | 6-10 |
| 3 | Bird & Bird | 6-10 |
| 4 | CMS | 3-5 |
| 5 | Eversheds Sutherland | 3-5 |
| 6 | White & Case | 3-5 |
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- Warsaw Partner Market 2026: A Sharp Drop, Nearly All at Big Firms
Lateral hiring in Warsaw fell 43.6% between the settled 12-month windows while the market rose 9.0% and London held flat (-2.5%). Firms of 1,000+ lawyers took 94.4% of Warsaw moves, and partners were only 12.8% of the three-year flow.
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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