Associates Giving Up On Partnership 
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		| Covington & Burling hiring partner Mark Plotkin says the firm's lawyers describe making partner as winning "a pie-eating contest where the prize is more pie." | 
	
 Associates join firms to make money in the short term, and don't really expect that some magic day they'll be made partners?  I never would have thought of that!  Oh, wait.  
Yes, I would.  And so did many others before.