Rate A Partner

"Oh ... Feel free to be nice, but only if they are." A blog platform for clients, lawyers, associates, legal secretaries, paralegals, staff attorneys, special counsel, of counsel and law students to praise or pan partners with whom they've worked. The site has a weekly partner-of-the-week vote, covers law firm layoffs and other partners in the news, and allows readers who don't see a listing for a partner they know and want to comment on to fill out a submission form.

Author: Sam Smith was laid off from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft's Charlotte, N.C., office in July 2008.

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