Making partner usually means stiff competition with other associates.
But at Latham & Watkins, associates are asked to put down their swords and shields and objectively evaluate whether their peers have what it takes to make partner.
Making partner usually means stiff competition with other associates. But at Latham & Watkins, associates serve a two-year term on the associates committee, which makes partnership recommendations for the firm's partners to vote on. Most firms wouldn't do it -- they'd be looking to prevent scheming associates from using any power they have to benefit their own chance at partnership. But partner Richard Bress, who chairs the committee, says the associates have "grassroots ways of knowing things."
November 17, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Making partner usually means stiff competition with other associates.
But at Latham & Watkins, associates are asked to put down their swords and shields and objectively evaluate whether their peers have what it takes to make partner.
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