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2) Ambitious people who want to grow in their careers have already left or will leave soon unless the firm rethinks and starts treating everyone in the firm fairly and equally, and remuneration based on merit.
3) The firm has hired and still wishes to hire laterals, but beware, they are left on their own, with no firm support, and then they are compared to other lawyers who do not have their own book and still work on the firm's clients and get remunerated disproportionately higher (more than their revenue). There is no basis for remuneration.
4) No strategy before any hiring is done, and ultimately, lawyers suffer.