{"id":153290,"date":"2026-05-29T15:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/29\/nonequity-partners-entered-the-chat-and-skaddens-promotion-numbers-soared\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:28:18","slug":"nonequity-partners-entered-the-chat-and-skaddens-promotion-numbers-soared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/29\/nonequity-partners-entered-the-chat-and-skaddens-promotion-numbers-soared\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonequity Partners Entered The Chat, And Skadden\u2019s Promotion Numbers Soared"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

We will continue to promote to both income and equity tiers moving forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Developing our talent and providing those opportunities earlier contributed to the larger class.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been broadly positively received. It adds more definition and clarity to the career track here at Skadden.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Jeremy London<\/a>, executive partner at Skadden, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s adoption of a nonequity partnership tier and how the new program has done since its inception. Thanks to the nonequity track, the firm announced 55 new partners in April, compared to 22 in 2025 and 21 in 2024.<\/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 Nonequity Partners Entered The Chat, And Skadden\u2019s Promotion Numbers Soared<\/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

We will continue to promote to both income and equity tiers moving forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Developing our talent and providing those opportunities earlier contributed to the larger class.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been broadly positively received. It adds more definition and clarity to the career track here at Skadden.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Jeremy London<\/a>, executive partner at Skadden, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s adoption of a nonequity partnership tier and how the new program has done since its inception. Thanks to the nonequity track, the firm announced 55 new partners in April, compared to 22 in 2025 and 21 in 2024.<\/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. We will continue to promote to both income and equity tiers moving forward. Developing our talent and providing those opportunities earlier contributed to the larger class. It\u2019s been broadly positively received. It adds more definition and clarity to the career track here at Skadden. \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Jeremy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":153263,"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-153290","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\/05\/Staci-Zaretsky-Dl1bAH.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153290","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=153290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}