{"id":145311,"date":"2026-03-03T14:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/03\/fewer-equity-partners-fatter-paychecks\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:37:25","slug":"fewer-equity-partners-fatter-paychecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/03\/fewer-equity-partners-fatter-paychecks\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer Equity Partners, Fatter Paychecks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The trend is clearly: firms are becoming much more careful [about expanding in their equity tier.]\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Blane Prescott, a law firm consultant on compensation issues and managing shareholder at MesaFive, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning equity partner ranks remaining stagnant or decreasing in size among Am Laaw 200 firms. At the end of the day, this means more take-home cash for the equity partners who remain.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Fewer Equity Partners, Fatter Paychecks<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The trend is clearly: firms are becoming much more careful [about expanding in their equity tier.]\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Blane Prescott, a law firm consultant on compensation issues and managing shareholder at MesaFive, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning equity partner ranks remaining stagnant or decreasing in size among Am Laaw 200 firms. At the end of the day, this means more take-home cash for the equity partners who remain.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. The trend is clearly: firms are becoming much more careful [about expanding in their equity tier.]\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0Blane Prescott, a law firm consultant on compensation issues and managing shareholder at MesaFive, in comments given to the American Lawyer, concerning equity partner ranks remaining stagnant or decreasing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Staci-Zaretsky-EkDABq.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}