Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
We maintain exceptionally high standards for promotion to partnership, and each of our new partners exemplifies our firm’s dedication to practice excellence and client service,.
— A spokesperson for Paul Weiss, in comments given to Bloomberg Law on the firm’s most recent partnership class, promoting 34 associates to partner, just about tripling the size of its class over last year. This is the first year that the firm is using a nonequity partner tier, and Paul Weiss did not confirm how many of its new partners were elevated to its equity tier over its new nonequity tier.
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