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- Difficult seniors and team politics
- Better hikes at other firms
- Work life balance issues
- Wrong practice area
- Relocating to another city
2) For Senior Associates (SA1 - SA3)
- Better hikes at other firms
- Marriage with colleagues
- PA/Counsel offers from rival firms
3) For Principal Associates (PA/Counsels)
- Marriage with colleagues
- Bleak chances of making partner
- Politics with the reporting partner concerning the book size, client retention, mandate management and miscommunications.
4) Partners
- Larger fixed bands at other firms i.e. larger takehome portion of the business generated for the firm
- Some switch to T2s for better work life balance
- Most of them go for in-house roles