[bob13579]

Sorry, but law firms operate for-profit. Partners are the owners of those firms and don't give away their profits to charities at the end of every fiscal year. This is quite a ludicrous assertion. Several partners at top law firms pocket several million a year outside of their client fees. For many lawyers from top schools, making partner is the ultimate goal because of the potential windfall.

http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=1202588541180&...

[VLM]

I think the problem is I'm using "profit" as an accounting term and you're using it as a synonym for "money".