{"id":99745,"date":"2025-01-09T17:02:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T01:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/09\/the-associate-tier-is-shrinking-at-top-biglaw-firms\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T17:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T01:02:39","slug":"the-associate-tier-is-shrinking-at-top-biglaw-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/09\/the-associate-tier-is-shrinking-at-top-biglaw-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Associate Tier Is Shrinking At Top Biglaw Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things have changed a bunch over the last 15 years.<br \/>\nThe post The Associate Tier Is Shrinking At Top Biglaw Firms appeared first on Above the Law.<\/p>\n<article id=\"post-1079624\" class=\"post-1079624 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-biglaw tag-biglaw tag-trivia-question-of-the-day\">\n<div class=\"post__content single-post\">\n<div class=\"single-post__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"single-post__content-column\">\n<div class=\"single-post__content\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-693089\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GettyImages-960344520-300x204.jpg?resize=300%2C204&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cutting the Staff Large scissors cutting employees in half.\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to Thompson Reuters\u2019 2025 State of the Legal Market Report, talent at the top 50 Biglaw firms has shifted over the last 15 years with the associate tier of attorneys decreased by what percentage?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: (Not at all) coincidentally, the nonequity tier expanded by a very similar percentage over the same time period.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/01\/the-associate-tier-is-shrinking-at-top-biglaw-firms\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/01\/the-associate-tier-is-shrinking-at-top-biglaw-firms\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things have changed a bunch over the last 15 years. The post The Associate Tier Is Shrinking At Top Biglaw Firms appeared first on Above the Law. Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to Thompson Reuters\u2019 2025 State of the Legal Market Report, talent at the top 50 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":99746,"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":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law","category-legal_matters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-960344520-scaled-Kv4qnG.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1737&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99745","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}