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KIRKLAND & ELLIS SHATTERS THE MARKET, NAMES MORE THAN 200 PARTNERS

https://www.kirkland.com/news/press-release/2024/10/kirkland...
charcoal wrinkle
  10/01/24
wtf is this normal
razzmatazz athletic conference
  10/01/24
Do you really not get how KE works? It’s been like thi...
Saffron idiotic toaster
  10/01/24
lmao
razzmatazz athletic conference
  10/01/24
...
Saffron idiotic toaster
  10/01/24
and they'll WILL DO, THANK you for the opportunity!
Haunting Cracking Site Weed Whacker
  10/01/24
yea this sounds horrid. when i was at an unprestigious bigla...
shimmering mind-boggling regret
  10/01/24
dc should be mellower than nyc but yeah why would anyone ...
Vigorous brass feces principal's office
  10/01/24
isn't it v10 or something? based on what i've heard that mak...
shimmering mind-boggling regret
  10/01/24
no, it's v6 https://vault.com/best-companies-to-work-for/...
Vigorous brass feces principal's office
  10/01/24
Are these guys even equity partners who’ll get put on ...
Lavender goyim
  10/05/25
They don't get K-1s, you can tell a "real" Kirklan...
charcoal wrinkle
  10/05/25
...
Red Boyish Heaven
  10/05/25
Every single time
stimulating knife
  10/05/25
HOW DO THEY KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
Big grizzly hall
  10/01/24
I see a few of my ls classmates
Vigorous brass feces principal's office
  10/01/24
...
Bearded Carnelian Boistinker Jew
  10/01/24
k&e salt lake city partner tp
impressive home newt
  10/01/24
...
hyperventilating bateful point boltzmann
  10/05/25
How Chadly is Kirkland Dallas?
ivory faggotry round eye
  10/01/24
Where the fuck is the 2025 list.
charcoal wrinkle
  10/05/25
HOLY SHIT. Kirkland & Ellis Won’t Publicly Announ...
charcoal wrinkle
  10/08/25
FUCK MY ASS
Aromatic frozen hairy legs
  10/08/25
PLEASE CREDIT AUTOADMIT
charcoal wrinkle
  10/08/25
GayGPT went thru the names and jfc 36% are NOWAG/NOWIG, just...
Alcoholic dopamine
  10/05/25
Honestly surprised it didn't balk at determining ethnicity b...
Arousing Chad Locale
  10/05/25
...
diverse flushed pit
  10/17/25
SECOND PAGE PLEASE
razzmatazz athletic conference
  10/17/25
Once you get to about the 30s, you're looking at "bigla...
Frisky Sinister Library
  10/17/25
Sleep tight, grim rite We have two hundred partners
razzmatazz athletic conference
  10/17/25


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Date: October 1st, 2024 6:30 PM
Author: charcoal wrinkle

https://www.kirkland.com/news/press-release/2024/10/kirkland-and-ellis-announces-new-partners

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#48151490)



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Date: October 1st, 2024 6:32 PM
Author: razzmatazz athletic conference

wtf is this normal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#48151498)



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Date: October 1st, 2024 6:46 PM
Author: Saffron idiotic toaster

Do you really not get how KE works? It’s been like this for decades. These are all rising 7th year associates who they give the partner title to. They’ll make less money next year than their peers at other firms while they pay taxes on a K-1 and are billed out at $1,300 an hour.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#48151527)



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Date: October 1st, 2024 6:48 PM
Author: razzmatazz athletic conference

lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#48151530)



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Date: October 1st, 2024 6:48 PM
Author: Saffron idiotic toaster



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Date: October 1st, 2024 6:50 PM
Author: Haunting Cracking Site Weed Whacker

and they'll WILL DO, THANK you for the opportunity!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#48151536)



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Date: October 1st, 2024 6:59 PM
Author: shimmering mind-boggling regret

yea this sounds horrid. when i was at an unprestigious biglaw firm in dc, a guy who'd left the firm just before i joined went over to KE. he made "partner" and then 1-2 years after that went to seyfarth (even less prestigious than my firm). i know a couple associates there and he's apparently a psycopath piece of shit. bigtime gunner, but even he couldn't hack it at KE. it sounds awful.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#48151553)



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Date: October 1st, 2024 7:25 PM
Author: Vigorous brass feces principal's office

dc should be mellower than nyc

but yeah why would anyone consider kirkland or latham a v5?

this is as ridiculous as us news claiming jhu is t10 or w/e

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#48151661)



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Date: October 1st, 2024 7:28 PM
Author: shimmering mind-boggling regret

isn't it v10 or something? based on what i've heard that makes no sense. it sounds like a shithouse.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#48151668)



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Date: October 1st, 2024 7:32 PM
Author: Vigorous brass feces principal's office

no, it's v6

https://vault.com/best-companies-to-work-for/law/top-100-law-firms-rankings#rankings-group-0

imagine waking up and seeing paul hastings or cadwalader in the v10

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#48151688)



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Date: October 5th, 2025 3:45 PM
Author: Lavender goyim

Are these guys even equity partners who’ll get put on K-1s (and buy their own insurance and all that mess)? Or do they just get the title (and get billed at new inflated rates) but they’re still really W-2 employees for a few more years while they get their “look” at real partner

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#49327002)



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Date: October 5th, 2025 3:47 PM
Author: charcoal wrinkle

They don't get K-1s, you can tell a "real" Kirkland partner when he gets a PC next to his name.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#49327004)



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Date: October 5th, 2025 4:13 PM
Author: Red Boyish Heaven



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Date: October 5th, 2025 5:23 PM
Author: stimulating knife

Every single time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#49327166)



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Date: October 1st, 2024 6:49 PM
Author: Big grizzly hall

HOW DO THEY KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#48151534)



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Date: October 1st, 2024 7:28 PM
Author: Vigorous brass feces principal's office

I see a few of my ls classmates

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#48151667)



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Date: October 1st, 2024 7:30 PM
Author: Bearded Carnelian Boistinker Jew



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Date: October 1st, 2024 7:32 PM
Author: impressive home newt

k&e salt lake city partner tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#48151683)



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Date: October 5th, 2025 8:06 PM
Author: hyperventilating bateful point boltzmann



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Date: October 1st, 2024 7:33 PM
Author: ivory faggotry round eye

How Chadly is Kirkland Dallas?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#48151690)



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Date: October 5th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: charcoal wrinkle

Where the fuck is the 2025 list.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#49326942)



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Date: October 8th, 2025 2:42 PM
Author: charcoal wrinkle

HOLY SHIT.

Kirkland & Ellis Won’t Publicly Announce New Partners This Year, Marking Strategy Shift

https://www.law.com/2025/10/08/kirkland-and-ellis-wont-publicly-announce-new-partners-this-year-marking-strategy-shift/?slreturn=20251008144054

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#49334668)



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Date: October 8th, 2025 2:55 PM
Author: Aromatic frozen hairy legs

FUCK MY ASS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#49334694)



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Date: October 8th, 2025 2:57 PM
Author: charcoal wrinkle

PLEASE CREDIT AUTOADMIT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#49334699)



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Date: October 5th, 2025 3:18 PM
Author: Alcoholic dopamine

GayGPT went thru the names and jfc 36% are NOWAG/NOWIG, just lol Birdshits

Result — estimated distribution (200 names)

Origin category Count (of 200) Percent

Anglo / Western European (English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, Dutch, etc.) 84 42.0%

East Asian (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc.) 38 19.0%

South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan) 34 17.0%

Other Europe / Mediterranean (Italian, Greek, Portuguese, etc.) 10 5.0%

Eastern European / Slavic / Balkan 7 3.5%

Hispanic / Latino 6 3.0%

Middle Eastern / Arabic / North African 6 3.0%

African / Nigerian / Sub-Saharan 3 1.5%

Ambiguous / Mixed / Couldn’t confidently classify 12 6.0%

Total 200 100.0%

Quick interpretation

The single largest group appears to be Anglo/Western European-origin surnames (~42%) — expected for a global US-headquartered firm with many UK/US partners.

East Asian (mainly Chinese, Korean) and South Asian names together make up a large minority (~36% combined), reflecting strong representation of Asian-origin lawyers in international firms.

Smaller shares come from Eastern Europe, Middle East, Hispanic, and African-origin names.

~6% are genuinely ambiguous from the name alone (e.g., names that could plausibly be from multiple regions, rare or modern hybrid names).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#49326961)



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Date: October 5th, 2025 3:41 PM
Author: Arousing Chad Locale

Honestly surprised it didn't balk at determining ethnicity by surname.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#49326996)



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Date: October 17th, 2025 5:11 PM
Author: diverse flushed pit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#49356302)



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Date: October 17th, 2025 5:14 PM
Author: razzmatazz athletic conference

SECOND PAGE PLEASE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#49356309)



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Date: October 17th, 2025 7:41 PM
Author: Frisky Sinister Library

Once you get to about the 30s, you're looking at "biglaw" firms that have lawyers who are about as good as those at lots of much smaller local firms.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#49356621)



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Date: October 17th, 2025 5:47 PM
Author: razzmatazz athletic conference

Sleep tight, grim rite

We have two hundred partners

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604699&forum_id=2Vannesa#49356390)