Bloomberg Law
December 1, 2016, 2:01 PM UTC

Lawyer Who Helped Save Death Row Inmate Didn’t Make Partner

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

Brian Stolarz was picking up signs everywhere that his time as a lawyer at K&L Gates was limited.

A chance encounter in the Baltimore airport with a partner who had recently departed the firm left Stolarz convinced about the nature of the problem: He was spending too much time working on pro bono, when he could be billing hours, Stolarz recalled. Associates in his class had told him the same thing — when they received bonuses that he didn’t, and when he was passed over for partner, he said.

As Stolarz tells it, in 2007, the firm assigned him to work on its ...

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