Our departments serve as home bases from which our individual lawyers conduct their practices. New associates generally join a department
when they complete their first year with the firm. As practices evolve, some lawyers change departments or become involved in projects in another
department. In addition, because the complex legal issues we handle often call upon multiple disciplines, special teams often form across
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Corporate partner Raj
Marphatia regularly works with tax associates Beth
Elliott (Harvard Law School '03), left, and Melissa
Haley (Harvard Law School '01), right, in structuring complex
investment partnerships. |
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Our 2008 submission to NALP reports the
following information as to the allocation of our 868 lawyers among
the firm's six departments and four offices (note that unassigned lawyers
are shown in the department(s) in which they principally practice,
and lawyers splitting between departments are shown in both departments):
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| Our firm has grown steadily
across all departments. In recent years, for example, associates have
become partner in each of our six departments. Our overall success
rate to partnership — since 1995, approximately 16% of the associates
who originally comprised the classes considered for partnership in
that period have been made partners in the firm — is exceptional
among top-tier firms. |
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Gabrielle Higgins and Rich Feustel are
two of the ten Ropes & Gray
associates who were promoted to partner in November 2007. Gabrielle
practices in the Palo Alto office, and Rich practices in the
Boston office, having relocated there from the New York office. |
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