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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like you are being iced out but it also sounds like you aren't working hard enough to make yourself valuable. You need to make yourself irreplaceable, your hours need to be stellar, you need to have a clear connection with several partners who will go to bat for you.  If you haven't figured this out and haven't done it by the 6th year, it isn't good.  But it sounds like you don't want it anyway.  Be honest.  If you aren't trying for partnership track then why are you there? To be the world's oldest associate?  You need to bill enough and have enough receivables to make yourself profitable. They aren't just going to hand you a promotion and you can't just stay forever in limbo as an associate.

At this level perhaps you can go in house for a client.  Talk to a partner you trust to see if there are any openings at clients or other connections.  You could also consider moving to the government

At my BIGLAW, in lieu of lay offs often partners stop giving work to associates they want to leave.  Totally passive aggressive but the theory is the associate will get the hint and get a new job.  This could be happening to you.  It is easier to get a new job when you already have one.  Good luck.[/quote]

I don't understand this comment.  "Average" hours are insufficient to make someone valuable?  They have to be "stellar?"  How do average hours translate into getting "iced out?"  Someone has to be in the middle . . . is the entire middle of the pack getting fired?[/quote]

Yes. That's the business model. Milk as many  hours as you can get from associates and then fire them after 5-8 years. Rinse, lather, repeat with each new class of associates.

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