Now I Really Get the Law Job Market In a blog posting entitled, Did the Market for Law Firm Associates Peak 25 Years Ago , Bill Henderson, of The Legal Whiteboard, graphically shows the change in the BigLaw staffing model I discussed, in part, here . You must take a look at this material! From the posting (with permission): Based on the chart below, which reflects 35 years of large law firm data, the answer appears to be yes. The chart enables us to compare two very simple trendlines: the percentage of lawyers in NLJ 250 law firms who have the title of Associates versus the percentage with the title of Partner. * * * Indeed, the 35-year graphic above provides a true wide-angle view, which in turn reveals an absolutely remarkable story. Associates were most integral to the large law firm model over 25 years ago. Although large law firms went on a hirng spree at various points during the 1990s and 2000s, the firms themselves were simultaneously adding a ne