Litigation & Disputes in Nashville: lateral monitor

Sartori & Partners data show 55 lateral moves in Litigation & Disputes in Nashville from November 2025 to October 2026, 1.0% of the practice's moves. On settled windows the count went from 46 to 53 (+15.2%), a change inside the noise of the two counts, so we read it as flat.

Over the three years to October 2026, 128 lawyers moved in Litigation & Disputes in Nashville, 38 of them partners (29.7%). They joined 34 different firms. 14.8% stepped up a level on the move and 21.0% changed city, against 12.3% and 21.6% across the market over the same three years. 29.1% came from firms with 1,000+ lawyers.

Partners account for 23.6% of movers, near the market's 27.7%. A step up in title came with 9.1% of moves (market 12.9%).

Lateral hires in Litigation & Disputes in Nashville were spread across 22 firms. The ten firms at the head of the hiring table took 78.2% of arrivals (12.9% market-wide), so hiring here is concentrated. Kirkland & Ellis ranks first by lateral arrivals, in the 6-10 band.

The practice accounts for 47.4% of all lateral moves in Nashville. Over the three years to October 2026, 61.7% of movers came from another firm in Nashville itself. 21.3% of movers also changed city, against 20.5% market-wide.

For a firm planning a hire in Litigation & Disputes in Nashville, a flat market means candidates are not being pulled by a wave: the case for a move has to come from the platform.

Sartori & Partners data count 21 over the three years to October 2026.

Disputes & investigations work is involved in 95.2% of them.

Bass, Berry & Sims ranks first among advising firms over the period, in the 6-10 band.

Over the three years to October 2026, Commercial Litigation was involved in 48.4% of moves in Litigation & Disputes in Nashville.