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Changing Aspects of Law Firm Partnerships

By Leslie D. Corwin
January 27, 2011

In his concurring opinion to Judge Richard A. Posner's Oct. 24, 2002, decision in the much-publicized EEOC v. Sidley Austin, LLP case, commenced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) on behalf of 32 former partners of Sidley Austin, LLP (“Sidley”) who had been “de-equitized” or forced into mandatory retirement, Judge Frank H. Easterbrook commented that the majority had “missed [an] opportunity” to clarify the “legal status” of law firm partners and to answer the question, “Can large law firms adopt mandatory-retirement rules?” EEOC v. Sidley Austin, LLP, 315 F.3d 696 (7th Cir. 2002).

Changing Demographics and Mandatory Retirement

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