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The old Trilegal is dead. Outsiders killed it.
For better or worse we will see.
Got to know that some of the partners in the last batch were promoted solely on the basis of favouritism. Someone’s partnership pitch was purposely sabotaged to get a lateral partner hire from another firm.
Does anyone within Trilegal have more info on this? Is it true?
But if a justification is what you are looking for, it is that partners who are poached laterally will usually come in with their independent books while internally promoted partners don't and will need their sponsoring senior partners to feed them work for at least a couple of years while they build their books. Poaching hi-flying laterals simply makes for better business sense.