Editor’s note: This latest installment in our ongoing series about the changing legal workplace examines what law firms can do to address the skill gaps of young associates and related partner frustration.

Law firm partners are concerned about “Zoom associates”— those lawyers who came into the profession during and shortly after the pandemic—and whether some have skill deficiencies, industry observers have said. This has exacerbated associates’ tension with partners, which was already simmering because of generational differences and after-effects of the pandemic.

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