Has anyone lateralled from a senior associate/counsel position to partner at a different firm? If so, curious about what the process was and if you were approached?ive seen this happen a few times at v100 firms this year

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I have a friend who did this from a V50 where he was a senior associate to a V100. He didn’t really have a book or anything, but he does have a pretty good network. Typically, there has to be a specific need (i.e., not enough partners to service the work) or a firm looking to grow in a certain practice area for this to happen.

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He was definitely looking to leave as he was getting screwed over by his former firm re partnership. I don’t know if he used a recruiter or just reached out to a contact himself. I’ve personally only seen non-partners recruited in very niche areas of law. I think this would be unlikely to happen with general litigators, for instance.

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It seems like in some practice areas the only way to make partner is to lateral.

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