Lawyers are trained to find problems with anything. Will someone say, ‘Oh my god, instead of having nine-and-a-half years of assured employment, we only have seven-and-a-half years’? That is something we have to drive home and make clear that’s not what’s intended here.
— Barry Wolf, executive partner of Weil Gotshal & Manges, commenting on a potential complaint from associates he foresees happening due to the firm’s new shortened path to partnership. Wolf recently announced that Weil is cutting two years off its partner track because millennials “[don’t] want to wait nine or nine-and-a-half years” to find out whether they’ll be promoted.
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