Big-Firm Associates: Why They Go and How to Keep Them

honest as associate salaries and bonuses rocket always higher, larger law firms in the U.S. are reported to misplace at least 30 percent of associates after about three years. Big-sturdy associates may be a unsalvageable genesis, circa Ben W. Heineman Jr. and David B. Wilkins: a contingent of junior lawyers whose initial professional adventure is outrageously unsatisfying, who are turned off by the usual liturgy of passage in a big firm, and who are not developing as legal professionals in the broadest pick up of that phraseology.