“I’m a senior associate (15PQE) at a regional firm in a specialist practice area where work has increasingly concentrated on the large City practices in recent years.
“I left my job at a silver circle firm in London seven years ago, having been headhunted to establish and lead a new practice area for a national firm (with the promise of partnership that never materialised). I then moved to my current firm three years ago, but found that the firm is too small to support the high value work for my practice area.
