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Kilpatrick Stockton, which in April laid off 24 lawyers and endured the resulting tragedy, has hired a group of three intellectual property lawyers from Day Pitney.
Stephen Feingold, Marc Lieberstein, and Barry Benjamin will handle trademark litigation and transactional matters out of Kilpatrick’s New York office.
Just this week, Day Pitney laid off 20 lawyers, and deferred its incoming associate class.
Kilpatrick Stockton employs more than 500 attorneys in ten offices globally: Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia; Charlotte, Raleigh and Winston-Salem, North Carolina; New York, New York; Washington, DC; Dubai, UAE; London, UK; and Stockholm, Sweden.
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Law firms of all sizes are being much more selective about who makes equity partner. Gone are the days where doing good work and putting in your time is enough to get you to a profit sharing level. Today, equity partners almost always have to prove that they can contribute their share to the firm. So what does this mean for associates and how can a two-tiered partnership track be beneficial? With a two-tiered partnership structure, associates get more time to prove themselves and also more time to determine whether partnership is the right goal for them. Two-tier partnerships (non-equity and equity) exist so the firm can train and develop associates into equity partners. The non-equity track to partner at most firms is on average, 6 years long. [...]
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