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The grass may not be greener at either place. Perhaps escalating the rhetoric (diplomatically) internally and suggest that you may need to leave if you do not get the support you need to service your clients. Management may not realize how bad the situation has become for you.
Are you otherwise happy and see a future at your current firm? If your only beef is the lack of associate, keep
Pushing for that. If there are other financial health or other long term issues at the current place then consider moving. AmLaw 50 sounds great but if no clients follow will you just be a service partner?
If they will not hire an associate then question whether broader financial problems exist. You don’t want be caught re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titantic.
At the smaller firm, most of my clients would come with; at the larger firm I am worried no clients would follow (about $400 an hour rate increase). But potentially huge upside if I could develop biz at the larger firm.
Yes, I am pretty happy and I have a great relationship with lots of partners there. I get a ton of internal work. The leadership of our group just sucks.
I worked with other partners to change our group manager (note I did not use the word “leader”). You may wish to consider this if possible.
Stick it out. Keep pushing for the associate. Then in the coming years become the group leader yourself.
I had a similar problem at a prior firm - other attorneys in group drag down group performance. One lawyer bills 2200 hours and one lawyer bills 1400 hours. Firm looks at group as underperforming because average is 1800.
Go to the smaller firm with your book. Why throw away what you’ve built?
Only downside there is smaller upside potential. A bigger firm would enable a potentially bigger book in the future - but hard to trade the certainty of the smaller firm with the unknown potential of a larger firm.