BECOMING PARTNERS / THERE WERE INTRODUCED INTERMEDIARY CHARACTERS AS JUNIOR, SALARY AND LOCAL IN MANY LAW FIRMS A strict selection but principally the necessity to bring in dowry, besides several years of experience, at least 1,5 million billing; in this way the nomination becomes a difficult purpose. In some cases the lawyer examination foresees a due diligence and also a deep psychoaptitudinal analysis Is a par excellence purpose. Every lawyer dream from the first day when he gets the entry of a law firm. The spin off cause, seats changes, satisfactions and dissatisfactions. We are referring to the law firm’s partner election, the crowning of a perfect career, with the acquisition by the professional of some professional association’s quotas to which he ties up through tick and thin. But the entrance into the partnership is as much desired, as very difficult to get. The necessary requirement for the nomination, in fact, concern not only the candidate professional qualities, his team job managerial and management abilities, but also, and above all, the clients and the billing that is able to bring "in dowry" to the law firm. According to what it results to TopLegal, is about a value that oscillates around a million and a half euros. Models in comparison The qualifications into the main active law firms in Italy Allen & Overy Ashurst Bonelli Erede Pappalardo Carnelutti Chiomenti Cleary Gottlieb Clifford Chance CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni Dewey & LeBoeuf Freshfields Gianni Origoni Grippo Latham & Watkins Legance Linklaters Lombardi Molinari e Associati Lovells Macchi di Cellere Gangemi Nctm Norton Rose Nunziante Magrone Orrick Pedersoli Rossotto & Partners Tonucci Willkie Farr & Gallagher Typically, the junior partners have the makings of entering the equity. The passage due time is of about two or three years. Before a lateral there is what in slang is called "fishbowl": the candidate is observed as a fish in a bowl.