When more than 90 partners in seven months leave a law firm, no matter how large, eyebrows are raised and at least 91 different stories can be had about the cause. For K&L Gates, those stories have played out publicly across legal media in recent weeks as former partners and the firm’s chairman offer up their explanations for departures across the 2,000-lawyer firm’s increasingly global platform.
What legal community observers and firm chairman Peter Kalis have boiled the moves down to is a concerted effort to trim the nonequity partner ranks of those who weren’t generating enough business. That is a business decision currently taking place at large firms across the country and something legal consultants have been urging the often more collegial Pennsylvania law firm community to do for some time.
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