Originally Posted by Unregistered

Exactly.

I really hate how these salary levels have been normalized, considering the amount of DIRECT profit junior associates bring into the firm. It's really practically slave labor. And the reasoning which partners use "we have to spend time training and reviewing their work" - isn't that time all billed to the client too? If a junior associate spends 10 hours doing a piece of work and the partner spends 2 hours reviewing, that 12 hours goes straight into the invoice.