Difference between associate and senior associate?

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Seniority.

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Logged on just to say this when I saw the OP notification. Looks like there’s a smarter a** already here! Love it.

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My title gives the firm the ability to bill me out at a higher rate because when clients see my absurd rate my title says “senior” next to it.

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It is actually the firm’s reason. I asked when I got “promoted”

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Awesome!

Responsibility. Usually senior associates are responsable for the junior associate’s work and we have administrative work.

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I’m a *senior* associate. At my firm, I got the title once they hired a junior associate. The big difference is billing. They couldn’t bill the just passed the bar junior associate at the same hourly rate as the more experienced senior associates, so I got promoted. I also got a raise. But I also have more administrative work. I have to review the juniors work, and I do a lot more consultations and billing review. I have to edit all the time for the junior associate and paralegals before it goes to the partner.

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Increased responsibilities e.g. training juniors / client management. Also likely to be expected to undertake more business development to grow practice. Greater autonomy

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At my regional firm, senior associates were distinguished from associates in that they were authorized to bill clients directly (along with some other minor benefits).

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At my firm it’s so they can bill more

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Do that many firms distinguish? I see grad years on case acceptance letters but I’ve don’t really see Junior vs senior specifically as a title much except on here.

I was at a regional ID firm with 300 attorneys and only 2 partners that had senior department managing associates

I’m going with training wheels vs. not

Hopefully it means there are younger associates the senior can delegate the basic shitty work to. Otherwise what’s the point!

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