Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
I talked to one guy who heads a big New York firm, who said ‘We just have to invest in the people [we already have], or at least show them a career path, or we’re gonna lose them.
— Brad Hildebrandt, chair of Hildebrandt Consulting and one of the authors of the 2024 Client Advisory from Hildebrandt Consulting and Citi’s Global Wealth at Work Law Firm Group, in comments given to the American Lawyer on one of the reasons Biglaw firms are expanding their nonequity partner ranks. The survey notes that 83% of Biglaw firms expect to increase the size of their income partner roles in the next two years, a “staggering jump” from the 68% projected growth reported last year.
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