Do Canadian big law firms have non equity partners or are they mostly equity? Looks like a lot of JD 2015-2016 folks are making partner this year and it seem quite fast compared to the US.

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Some do (most now, I think), but some don't.

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Yes quite a few have income partner tiers now.

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