Mandatory retirement policies at law firms are a hot topic both because the baby boom generation of lawyers will soon hit retirement age and because of the ongoing federal age discrimination suit against Sidley Austin Brown & Wood. Currently, some firms with a mandatory retirement age already allow individual attorneys to negotiate exceptions. And as retirement-age attorneys continue to show their worth, there are predictions that firms in general will move away from mandatory retirement policies.
June 21, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
When it comes down to it, 75-year-old tax lawyer George Hrdlicka continues to practice law at the firm he helped found in 1965 because he can think of nothing he’d rather do than work.
“What would I do with this time if I didn’t spend six or seven hours a day practicing law?” Hrdlicka says, noting that his hobbies of gardening, reading and motorcycle road trips don’t fill his time.
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