Keep your head down, and prepare to wait if you want to make partner.
As we mentioned in Morning Docket, the American Lawyer just published a wonderful study about making partner at the top Biglaw firms. The publication analyzed all of the new partner hires at 97 of the Am Law 100 firms, reported on how women were doing, and noted some other general trends. Here are the top-line results:
- Only one third of new partners were women.
- The average wait for partnership was 10.5 years.
Oh, and there’s a chart that shows which firms were really hostile toward making new female partners….
