Q: I’m a staff attorney at a top law firm. Others from my summer class are associates—making more money and on partnership track. I can’t advance and feel stuck and inferior. What should I do?
In many law firms, “staff attorney” is part of a lower tiered track established to provide commodity legal work for clients at lower billable rates. Lawyers who occupy this position are not on partnership track, have lower billable requirements and are often paid appreciably less than their associate counterparts. Their professional profiles tend to differ as well—and include lawyers who have attended less prestigious law schools, have less than stellar grades, are re-entering the practice after a hiatus and seasoned lawyers with no book of business.
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