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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Being elected partner is about much more than the money. It's the validation and approbation of your peers and mentors, it's the culmination of decades of hard work, and it's the achievement of a major professional goal."

That's funny!

-law firm partner[/quote]

I'm sure the poster really feels this way.  Unfortunately, that's just the surface image - the reality is that election to partner *IS* based on money.  An associate has to be seen as a good billing machine who will continue to be one.  Subject matter experts are a dime a dozen.[/quote]

I'm the PP who made the "it's about much more than the money post."  I want to clarify.

Of course, from the firm's perspective, it's almost entirely about the money.  Or at least, the money is the singular and necessary precondition for everything else.

I was speaking from the perspective of someone being elected partner (full disclosure, I left biglaw as a 6th year associate), and specifically I was responding to a previous poster who shamed the OP for being a shameless money-grubber posting about money on Thanksgiving.  I think that that specific critique was off-base.  The OP didn't even mention money in his/her post, and my perspective is that being elected partner carries meaning [i]for the individual being elected partner[/i], beyond just the money.  I never said the money wasn't important, I said that the money wasn't the only important thing.

For anyone who has run the gauntlet of trials and tests, from law school, through big law associate years, to finally being elected partner, it is my impression that the event carries great personal significance beyond just the promise of money.

But, I'm sure the money is nice too.[/quote]

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