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It’s the difference between partnership track and various “counsel” type titles at law firms.

The former grows (or at least maintains) a book of business and is valuable, the latter has key skills and is useful but clearly not to the same degree.

And like many other contexts, the vast pipeline of people willing to dedicate their lives to trying to be useful mitigates the value of just being useful over time.




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