Orrick Herrington, McDermott Will and others beef up staff attorney positions

Orrick Herrington dumped lockstep associate promotion on Wednesday and began assigning associates to one of three tiers within its partner track.  The Orrick move comes as all BigLaw firms face immense client pressure to control costs.

This has also led Orrick and other firms to add significant numbers of staff attorneys to do more routine work like document review.

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