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Several attorneys said this week they hope the show will capture how demanding Big Law life can be, and the challenges that women-particularly minority women-face there.
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Lawyers are a dime a dozen on television, but “Partner Track” looks to go where most legal shows don’t-the inner workings and power dynamics of a large law firm. The book centers on Chinese-American associate Ingrid Yung, who is on the cusp of becoming her firm's first minority woman partner when an offensive incident at a law firm event forces her to question whether making partner is really worth it.
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The series is based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Helen Wan, who worked as an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison for a year and a half before joining media and entertainment firm Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz and later going in-house at Time Warner.
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Netflix announced this week that it has ordered 10 episodes of “Partner Track,” a new series that follows an Asian-American female associate trying to make partner at a white-shoe New York law firm and struggling with her morals along the way. (Reuters) - Big Law is coming to the small screen. We welcome feedback, which you can provide using the feedback tab on the right of the page. We are improving this feature as we continue to test and develop in beta. The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article. The main character is an Asian-American woman trying to make partner."Partner Track" could explore some of the pressing issues large firms face, attorneys say.