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Moving Up Class Year
For those of you who have successfully moved up a class year, could you share any tips as to how you went about it? Thanks in advance.
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Re: Moving Up Class Year
Not me, but close friend of mine pulled it off. A partner he worked with closely was interviewing to lateral to a competitor and approached him about joining her. She made accepting the lateral offer contingent on him moving with her and he asked for the class bump to make the transition and got itAnonymous User wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 5:14 pmFor those of you who have successfully moved up a class year, could you share any tips as to how you went about it? Thanks in advance.
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Re: Moving Up Class Year
We were short staffed as a new group who lost a lot of associates in a short time frame and I was left as the only "midlevel" in the group after my close colleague left to go in-house. I had also heard that a classmate of mine (in the same practice area but not small group) had gotten a lateral offer from a competitor and had recently leveraged that for a retention bonus. I scheduled a meeting with my partner mentor, who also happened to be in firm management at the time, and said -- I am not going to leave, I am not interviewing, this is not that, and I am happy and will stay no matter what the outcome is. But here is what I've contributed that is over and above what you would expect of an associate of [Class Year I was asking to be in] and why I think I should make the leap. I also emphasized that the reason was so I could be considered for partner earlier and not just one of compensation (lol).
I had good circumstances and a good story but that's how it happened.
I had good circumstances and a good story but that's how it happened.
