New Skadden Partner Offers Secrets to Associate Success

Loving your job, taking pride in your work and having the right mentors are what it takes to make partner, says one new member of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom.

Also, associates should not be afraid to let partners know what they think, even though they may inevitably make some mistakes along the way, Peter Morrison, 34, tells the Wall Street Journal Law Blog.

"Make yourself known and heard," he advises would-be partners there and elsewhere.