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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was a law student and baby associate, people talked about partnership like something anyone who had a shot at it would want. Any claim that someone *could* have made partner but chose not to was met with not just skepticism but incredulity. It was presented as any associate's end game, if at all possible. Now I'm a 7th year associate and I know a LOT of associates who had a decent shot at partnership and quit anyway. Some seemed to accelerate their exit after recognition/efforts at grooming that started to really crystalize for them they were likely to be promoted. [b]Recently a friend was told, point blank, by a managing partner that she was almost certainly going to be elected to partnership because the associates who were their first and second choice for promotion in her group quit[/b]. It also seems like associates junior to me are just way less invested in building their reputation and practice. Recently I offered a junior associate an opportunity to build their resume with experience I had to work really hard to get (oral argument), and they told me they didn't want to do it. Did we have the wrong idea as junior associates, or is this a real change? [/quote] The bolded part really surprises me. In my biglaw firm, it is definitely true that a lot more associates are very open about the fact that making partner is not something that interests them at all, and people are also very open about the fact that the lifestyle of a partner is not particularly desirable, and when they quit, they mostly go for jobs that are much more lifestyle-friendly. But it is still really difficult to make partner and there are plenty of disappointed associates each year in my firm who don't make it (or who are pushed out).[/quote]
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