Amnesia: How to Keep Your Midlevel Associates Happy

What You Need to Know

• Associates who began practicing during lockdown are now midlevels, meaning law firms' economic worker bees have little to no experience with pre-pandemic life in Big Law.
• Attempting a return to pre-pandemic culture and pushing the goal of equity partnership isn't boosting morale at firms that don't respect associates' boundaries or clearly define what success looks like outside of billable hours.
• Instead, midlevels are craving flexibility, healthy boundaries, reasonable flexibility to accommodate their personal lives and a clearly defined path to partnership.