What Associates Want: At One Big Firm, It’s Not Making Partner

By Melissa Heelan Stanzione, Bloomberg BNA, and Casey Sullivan, Big Law Business

Do most associates even want to make partner anymore?

“We have found that that is not the case,” said Paul Hastings Greg Nitzkowski at Big Law Business’s Summit in Los Angeles last week.

Nitzkowski responded to comments made by Andrei Iancu, managing partner of Irell & Manella, who said the opposite was true at his firm.

“I would say that still, most of our associates want to become equity partner at the firm,” said Iancu on Thursday, calling it their “main goal.”

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