Before a lawyer makes partner, they generally must spend several years as an associate, working long and difficult hours, many of them billable, to be considered for the position of partner. Grisham somewhat simplifies the types of partners in law firms, and there are some important distinctions between the types of partners that bear some scrutiny. Law firm partners are essentially split into equity and non-equity partners, which confer different benefits, salary and power. The trend in large law firms is to award associates who have put in the time for several years and shown great promise as lawyers by offering them a promotion. Often this promotion is to a non-equity law firm partner.
I heard from a number of readers who, not disputing the above, look at the situation through a different lens: the ratio of partner compesation to starting associate salary. Figure 1 shows this ratio before the incipient round of increases for the most profitable firms in the Am Law I confess, however, to carrying a benchmark in the back of my mind. It comes from when I was involved in MBA recruiting for a preeminent consulting firm.
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