{"id":4699,"date":"2004-02-03T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/02\/03\/becoming-a-partner-rainmaker-"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:59:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:59:04","slug":"becoming-a-partner-rainmaker-supervisor-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/02\/03\/becoming-a-partner-rainmaker-supervisor-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a Partner-Rainmaker-Supervisor in D,C,"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today’s edition of Legal Times<\/A><\/EM> has a cluster of articles about becoming a partner in BIGLAW Washington, DC., “New Partners: The Chosen<\/A>” (02-03-2004).  The intro summarizes the climate in the Nation’s Capital:<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“Litigators, corporate lawyers and intellectual property specialists were most likely to make partner this year at Washington, D.C.’s biggest firms. Increasingly, though, firms are using counsel as an intermediary step and stretching out the partnership track to eight years or more. Nor does getting the nod mean you’re home free — new partners face new pressures to land clients, supervise others and market themselves.”   <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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The most useful section, “From Peer to Supervisor<\/A>,” by Holly English, 02-03-2004, explains why it’s important to become a good supervisor and gives some pretty good tips.  In Let It Rain<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>,  Legal Times<\/EM> special reports editor Jenna Greene lets seven D.C. rainmakers tell how they landed their first clients. (Just how hard can it be to attract your first client if you just left the Department of Justice as the head of its Antitrust Division?)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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