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[quote=Anonymous]When I worked in top law firms years ago as a legal secretary, I was privileged to salary data.  A junior non-equity partner at a top firm back then was probably in the $350-$450k range.  I suspect it's slightly higher with inflation now.

Non-equity partners are just essentially employees, but with "partner" added to their name.  It's usually not a big deal (unless their experts and/or been around for a while), and they can be demoted (and are quite frequently) and let go at will.  At law firms that I worked at, if you weren't made a junior partner or counsel by the end of your 7th or 8th year as an associate, you were inching yourself close to the door.  As one becomes more senior as an associate, these firms would expect you to either start growing your own (or theirs) book of business, and/or 1st chair transactions/cases.  If they saw such in you, you'd almost always get the standard promotion to junior partner (or counsel).  If you didn't, you'd get the hint to look for a new job.[/quote]

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