Debevoise Launches New Feedback Program for Associates
“We've really focused on coaching, not grading,” said Nicole Mesard, chair of Debevoise & Plimpton's hiring committee, who helped develop the new program.
November 19, 2018 at 02:58 PM
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The original version of this story was published on The American Lawyer
Beginning this month, Debevoise & Plimpton is implementing a new feedback scheme across its U.S. offices that will place an emphasis on constant and consistent feedback for associates, aiming to make them better attorneys, faster.
The New York-based firm launched a pilot of its new feedback program earlier this year with about 120 lawyers in two of its practices groups, becoming the latest large law firm to revamp its performance management regime in recent years. Over the next six months, Debevoise & Plimpton will roll out the new program to its other U.S. practice groups, and then eventually overseas.
“We've given a lot of thought to what it is like to be an associate at Debevoise,” said Nicole Mesard, chair of the firm's hiring committee and deputy chair of its corporate department. “What do our associates want from their experience at the firm, and what do we want them to achieve here at the firm? Once they're here, they're ours, and we want to make them as great as we can.”
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