Among all the cuts, some US law firms are rolling out new partners like they’re going out of style. What gives? asks Vivia Chen
This is the year of low expectations, where even some who have been elected to partnership – and who expected to make the cut – sound surprised. “I was not so confident, given the economy,” says Rena Chng, a newly-elected partner at Mayer Brown’s Palo Alto office. Though Chng says she had successfully handled a big litigation matter this past year and was the only one in her office to be put up for partnership, she says, “If they had said, ‘you won’t make it this year,’ I would have understood.”
