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Someone please explain why firms still want transcripts for laterals 6 years out. What benefit does it add to the hiring process, especially when your managing partner reached out to me?

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So I’m starting my own Audit firm. I’ll be hiring two staff but I won’t be in Partnership with anyone just yet. What do I call myself? Obviously, I can’t call myself Managing Partner and I don’t want to call myself Sole Practitioner. Any suggestions?

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I recently gave my small firm notice that I am leaving and moving to another state. I mentioned that I am considering starting my own practice in the new area, and the managing partner suggested that I transition to an “of counsel” position at a 1099 hourly rate (remote) while I got started. I thought the rate was a bit low, but I’m not sure what to compare it to. Anybody have any experience with these arrangements? Any advice on how to structure? Or if it’s worth it? Any input is appreciated.

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Do other firms have policy where you can’t solicit your coworkers to leave? Recently left BKD and got an exiting email from managing partner says: it has been a while since you signed the contract where it states you can’t solicit colleagues to leave. Just want to remind you of that. Also my coworker got reminded in person when she was having exit talk with the group partner. Do you guys have similar policies?

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Strengthening Relationship with Managing Partner After Rocky Start


I switched firms in mid Dec. and took up new area of practice (insurance defense to coverage). I was recruited for the position and sold on the training I would get. Instead, I found a stressed out and unsupportive partner who did not have time to train me or the tact to let me save face when I asked dumb questions. I’m now taking charge of my own development, but I still have a frosty relationship with the partner. Advice?

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I was let go from my position yesterday. The managing partner, who did the letting go, said it as because of poor development and bad work product. Yet, only in December, I got a solid raise and excellent bonus for my size firm. Between then, the partner had made unsupported claims of bad work (e.g., claimed I used the wrong code in a letter bc it wasn’t the one he told me to use but the one the documents supported). Never dreamed of being “fired.” All partners are holding the party line and ...

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Have to tell my managing partner that I’ve accepted a different position after 3 years at my current firm. She heavily relies on me and I’m handling a large number of cases. Really struggling with the guilt...

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Job Not Providing Structured Training which is what made the position attractive during recruitment. I’m learning everything by myself and moving at a glacial pace. I’m upset, demoralized, and isolated. My managing partner is overcommitted and seems to have forgotten that I was promised 1-1 mentorship. I don’t want to go back to my old firm, but I am super salty. I asked a question my first day and was met with, well that’s a disconcerting question (it was about client docs) Any encouragement?

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Any advice for trying to transition to attorney role after passing bar? Working at a firm in a non-attorney role and doesn’t seem like the firm has a position for me, despite my positive review and consistently positive feedback from associates and partners alike. However, when the idea that I’d be leaving came up, the managing partner said they’d hope I would go to them first. Thoughts?

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Does anyone feel like they can’t ask the firm to pay for e- seminars/training in this cost-cutting situation? I wanna do so, it’s a relevant course, not too expensive and so far my firm seems to be doing OK (hiring and pay freezes but no redundancies) but I just feel the managing partner will be low key irritated (she is fairly calculative imo and rightly so) and I really don’t want to get in her bad books. Am I just overthinking?

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How is Gartner to work for in an executive managing partner role? What is the typical compensation in that position?

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“The client has authorized 3 hours of billable research and 1 billable hour for writing the memo, that should be MORE than sufficient to research the position of each circuit on this asinine issue that I thought of at 3AM this morning because I couldn’t sleep so I thought of ways to ruin your life instead!!!! Xoxo managing partner.”

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In interviews with Gartner consulting. Any rumors out there on what the culture is like or pay range for Managing Partner role?

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