Wake Up Call: BakerHostetler Drops Two-Tiered Partnership

Sept. 14, 2015, 11:51 AM UTC

• BakerHostelter’s partners voted unanimously Thursday to drop the firm’s two-tiered partnership structure, instead adopting a so-called unified partnership model,which ties each partner’s compensation at least partly to firm-wide profits. The 930-lawyer firm is now in a small group of firms to have abandoned a model of two strictly separate partnership tiers, in which partners are either all equity or all nonequity. (The American Lawyer)

• Dialogue around sexism in the law profession continued after a female attorney faced criticism last week for using Twitter to publicly call out an older male lawyer who sent what she called an offensive comment about her photo on LinkedIn. The ...

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