How important are references in the lateral job search currently? My current firm practice group is telling me that they don’t do references anymore and that it isn’t important in the lateral process. Are they bullshitting me?

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I’ve used attorneys with more seniority than me as references. When I was an associate, my references were senior attorneys because I didn’t want the partners to know that I was searching. As long as your reference knows your work quality, they should be able to help you.

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I’m about to start at a new firm and they asked for 3 references and contacted them all with substantive questions about me

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They didn’t have to be all partner references, though I ended up providing partner level references

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