Product Liability & Torts in New York: lateral monitor

From November 2025 to October 2026, Sartori & Partners recorded 104 lateral moves in Product Liability & Torts in New York, 10.8% of the practice's moves. Measured on settled 12-month windows, 101 moves against 139 the year before, the count fell 27.3%. The market as a whole moved +9.0%, so this flow lagged it.

Over the three years to October 2026, 359 lawyers moved in Product Liability & Torts in New York, 97 of them partners (27.0%). They joined 116 different firms. 12.5% stepped up a level on the move and 16.9% changed city, against 12.3% and 21.6% across the market over the same three years. 38.8% came from firms with 1,000+ lawyers.

At 22.1%, partners are a smaller slice of arrivals than in the market as a whole (27.7%). A step up in title came with 10.6% of moves (market 12.9%).

Lateral hires in Product Liability & Torts in New York were spread across 59 firms. The ten firms at the head of the hiring table took 41.2% of arrivals (12.9% market-wide), so hiring here is concentrated. Kennedys Law ranks first by lateral arrivals, in the 6-10 band.

The practice accounts for 5.0% of all lateral moves in New York. Over the three years to October 2026, 61.8% of movers came from another firm in New York itself. 20.0% of movers also changed city, against 20.5% market-wide.

There were 37 open roles in Product Liability & Torts in New York on law-firm career pages on November 11, 2026.

For a firm planning a hire in Product Liability & Torts in New York, a quieter market means fewer competing processes but also fewer people already in motion: plan on direct approach.

Sartori & Partners data count 136 dated deals in Product Liability & Torts in New York in the 12 months to October 2026 and 282 over the three years to October 2026.

Disputes & investigations work is involved in 99.3% of them.

By client industry, Individuals & Consumers comes first with 13.1%.

Cullen and Dykman ranks first among advising firms over the period, in the 11-20 band.

Over the three years to October 2026, Product Liability was involved in 46.8% of moves in Product Liability & Torts in New York, then Premises & General Liability with 44.0%.