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Staff attorneys are seen very differently at all firms. They are attorneys but they typically are seen as lacking the reasoning skills to be partnership track and are given more rote work, as mentioned above. For example, it may often be e-discovery work for litigation. Their pay is commensurately lower but they are very profitable for a firm.
A3 said “typically are seen as lacking…”; not “they lack…”
At least at my firm staff attorneys are administrative on the transactional side (running lien searches, checking UCC-1 forms properly filled out) and are essentially doc reviewers on the lit side. My guess is thats the norm (my first firm, v50, was the same way) so its known that you aren’t involved with the meat of the transaction or litigation
Associates are generally on a partnership track, while staff attorneys are not. Staff attorneys also tend to make less. I’m guessing that because staff attorneys are not on a partnership track and make less, the expectations of them putting their whole life into the job are also a bit lower.
My firm also has a position that’s called something like “career attorney.” This seems to be for someone who was on partner track and needed to scale back for whatever reason. I have seen people go from partner track to career attorney and back to partner track; one had young kids, one had long term medical issues, for example. We also have staff attorneys that are as others described; I initially confused these two titles but they are mot the same.
We have “case attorneys” who are super helpful with admin, filings, etc. and because they’re so involved with all of that they know everything about how judges respond to certain things. They’re absolutely indispensable to our team