When a partner brings in a new case, how is it assigned out to associates at your firm?

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Transactional attorney w/ experience at 3 top 50 firms. I was in a very niche group (30-60 attorneys at each firm out of 1000-2000 total). We always kept internal spreadsheets of who was working on which deals and the “lightest” deal team got the new deals. We also served a handful of bulge bracket banks, so work flow was busy but fairly consistent. I know some firms have staffing partners (which, anecdotally, every friend who works in a firm that uses that model finds it inefficient and/or unfair).

As a general rule, depending on the complexity/client, new deals were assigned to the deal team with the lowest utilization or the team with the most experience with that client (who would then pass off an existing deal to the underutilized deal team)

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It can also depends on the office. For example, if it’s a Chicago based firm with 400 attorneys sitting in one building, the first year class sizes are going to be much larger (and more likely to need a staffing partner) than the same firm’s Silicon Valley office, which may only have 30 attorneys.

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