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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a non-partner at a top biglaw firm. I'm in a prominent practice group. I've been practicing for almost two decades, but the first half was not at a firm, so I kind of started over when I came here. My reviews have consistently said my work is at the absolute highest level. I consistently bill 2000 hours. I consistently originate at least $500k. I run matters and manage client relationships. And my group has put me up for partner multiple times, but management rejects me every time entirely for business reasons. It's single-tier; I'm 100% certain I'd be at least an income partner at any two-tier firm. My firm is thrilled to have me stay on, since they're making about $2 mil off me annually. On the one hand, I make more money than 99.9% of the population. On the other hand, it seems like all my peers, and a lot of junior people who couldn't even shine my shoes as a lawyer, have made partner at my firm and others, and it really sucks because of the money, status, and control they get. But I'm basically trapped unless I want to take a huge pay cut to go into government or a nonprofit, which I don't. [/quote]

You don't have a big enough book of business at $500k, and they don't want you to have one because you'll be entitled to partnership.[/quote]

I'm counsel making Cravath scale.  Yeah, I don't have enough of a book to lateral somewhere comparable as a partner, but most people who were elevated had a smaller book (or no book).[/quote]

What you're saying is you'd rather be a perpetual associate at Cravath (eventually those partners who couldn't shine your shoes that you look down on will fire, but until then...) than a partner elsewhere [/quote]

Um, that's really not what I said. Find me a good firm that will bring me in as a partner and I'll go. So far, I haven't found it.[/quote]

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