Midlaw/"Regional" Biglaw Datapoints Forum

[resipsajob]

I have been wondering what people's theories are with regards to what data is meaningfully predictive of a good "culture" in a firm. With biglaw, you typically have some associates/former associates on sites like these that will give you some information, and the same goes for many gov jobs, but for everything else it feels a bit like flying blind.

So my question is, I have read as much as I can about the idea of "leverage." What else can you look to? For instance, if you find a firm has a lot of partners, approaching 1:1 ratio, but you are hard pressed to find many that were anything but class of 199x, what can this suggest other than high turnover rate? And, as an extension of that, is high turnover rate universally indicative of a sweatshop?

I've asked specific questions, but most generally I am really just looking for tips on how one might garner some tidbits of information purely from the attorney bios page of a firm's webpage. Thanks.

[stannis]

I looked at the bios of senior associates and younger partners. If most/all of them joined the firm as SAs, I assumed the firm was doing something right.