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Firms usually face a high attrition every year, and hire A0s to over just that. So basically most firms have a 50 to 70 percent rate of people leaving yoy, mostly in house.
The problem is that this year large companies are cutting cost centres, the biggest being legal in house teams and not hiring as rapidly, thereby preventing attrition from these law firms. Without vacancies being created, there is no need for A0s really, but experienced people at some levels to actually run the deals. Hence the freeze.