Handicapping the Race to Partnership: Tips, Please

Partnership. It’s the Holy Grail of private practice. It’s the brass ring for Biglaw attorneys (at least those who didn’t bail on the firm years ago). It’s the six- or seven-figure pot of gold at the end of a decade-long rainbow. And it’s something that lawyers talk about incessantly — who’s a lock, who’s DOA, and who’s in between.
Such gossip usually takes place in document-filled conference rooms, between bored associates speaking sotto voce, at some ungodly hour long after the powers-that-be have left the building. But we’re going to bring it out into the open and onto the internet, in this quasi-regular feature, Handicapping the Race to Partnership.
We’ll estimate the partnership chances of senior associates and counsels at some of the nation’s biggest and most prestigious firms — perhaps with a little fact-checking thrown in (our moles are everywhere). And yes, we will name names. We’ll talk about who’s been guaranteed partnership ever since she saved that billion-dollar deal from going south — and who’s never going to make it, despite his own ardent belief to the contrary, because everyone still remembers (and gossips about) his ill-fated romance with that busty paralegal.
So help us help you. Send us juicy tips about who will surely make partner — and who definitely won’t — at your firm. You know where to email us (subject line: “Race to Partnership”). Danke schön.

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