And you've turned them down for another year so they go off and get a partnership offer from a firm in the same tier as you?
- Cry tears of regret
- Shit on their dreams and tell them they aren't ready
- Offer to make them up there and then
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And you've turned them down for another year so they go off and get a partnership offer from a firm in the same tier as you?
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Wedgie them until they agree to stay on the same terms.
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3 just gives them the satisfaction of saying fook you.
2 reflects badly on you, even if it’s true.
1 welcome to be a large, hot mug of sucking it up.
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4. Find the colleague they hated most and make them up instead.
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Pull the ladder up ever such a little bit higher
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5. Tell them they’ve just won an ‘eat as much as you can’ contest, and the prize is more pie.
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* eat as much pie as you can ffs
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Staff them on everything (without giving them real work) so they get conflicted out of everything in the near term.
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A story as old of time.
Happened to me. Or rather I did it to my firm.
It's difficult for the door knockers as if you let the firms take the Michael, they will, and without an offer elsewhere you are going into a knife fight holding a lemon.
When you have an offer elsewhere you go into a knife fight with a AK47.
Anyway the firm's reaction was mainly 2 and then 1 and then 3.
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If you don’t want them then why do you care if they get an offer elsewhere?
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Because you turn them down, not the other way around.
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4. Shrug, move on, forget them.
You sentimental sod.
Non-binary the f**k up.
Colleagues are food, not friends.
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You still want them.
You just don't want to give them what they want whilst still taking max profits from them.
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Send them the restrictive covenants section of their employment contract with the most onerous bits double underlined, with “ungrateful c*untface” scrawled across the top
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I don’t really understand what is going on any more.
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Restrictive covenants don't do much at that level
Unlikely to have lots of their own clients anyway
More losing the talent, the stability, the management etc. Means partners have to do far more work and far less BD.
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Thanks for the insights Davos
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At my first shop, the reaction of partners was invariably to say "the firm you are going to is sh1t" (they were convinced of the supremacy of their firm amongst the MC) and then tell everyone afterwards about how sh!t the firm was leading up to when the news got out that person X was going.
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Lawyers love making out that every firm in the City other than theirs is a total pile of crap. It's really quite odd
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