Ed.
note:
Welcome
to
our
daily
feature,
Quote
of
the
Day.
They’ve
done
a
perfect
job
of
it.
You
have
Kirkland
non-share
partners
on
the
recruiter’s
speed
dial,
because
they’re
hot
sh*t.
It
doesn’t
matter
that
they
aren’t
equity.
The
recruiting
firm
gets
to
tell
all
their
people,
and
clients,
that
we’ve
collared
a
Kirkland
partner,
a
real
one.
And
they
love
it.
It
changes
how
the
firm
is
seen
in
the
market,
the
whole
vibe.
It
makes
firms
feel
like
they’re
players.
—
A
former
Kirkland
&
Ellis
partner,
in
anonymous
comments
given
to
the
American
Lawyer,
concerning
the
impact
that
the
top-ranked
Biglaw
firm’s
nonequity
partnership
tier
has
had
on
the
rest
of
the
industry.
The
partner
went
on
to
refer
to
Kirkland’s
salaried
partnership
tier
as
a
“market
changing
hydra.”
Now,
all
but
a
few
of
Biglaw’s
best
have
announced
the
introduction
of
income
partnership
tiers.
Staci
Zaretsky is
a
senior
editor
at
Above
the
Law,
where
she’s
worked
since
2011.
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