In November, six years after she arrived at White & Case as a midlevel associate, Jennifer Paradise received a call from Philip Schaeffer, the firm’s general counsel and the partner with whom she works most closely. Schaeffer asked Paradise to step into his office. Once there, he and two other lawyers she works with caused her a moment of panic by closing the door before breaking the news: Paradise had been elected to the firm’s partnership. Her reaction? “Frankly,” she says, “my jaw dropped. Which is a lovely sensation.”
When she joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison 11 years ago as a first-year associate fresh out of Columbia Law School, Paradise, like most attorneys she knew, had her professional sights set on one thing: becoming a law firm partner. Four years later, when an unexpected career turn took her to a job in White & Case’s general counsel’s office—a department that advises the firm’s lawyers on ethics and conflicts issues and other legal matters—Paradise wasn’t sure she would ever achieve her goal.
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