Partner Track, The

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The series is based on Helen Wan's 2013 novel The Partner Track who is set to be a consultant for the series. However, at a reception hosted by Nick, Ingrid encounters Dan's DOE contact and realizes he is drunkenly speaking to a Financial Times journalist working on a story about the rumored acquisition. I could feel the power and influence that coursed through these conference rooms like electrical currents high atop the city. Nolan Gerard Funk plays Ingrid’s smarmy rival Dan Fallon, and Matthew Rauch is Ingrid’s no-nonsense boss Marty Adler.

The Partner Track romances us with power, all the while revealing the betrayal, bigotry and illusion congealed inside of it. So at the last minute, I rushed from work to my apartment and threw on my high school prom dress—the one I'd worn the night I'd been crowned Potomac Valley High's first-ever Asian American prom queen.First, the omnipresence of Blackberrys in the story dates it since Blackberry is no longer the electronic business toy of choice. As I turned to go, barely able to suppress the huge smile forming on my face, he added casually, "Oh, just one more thing, Ingrid. I cleared my throat and said in the mellifluous voice I reserved for partners and clients, "Hi, Marty, how are you? We were senior associates, on the verge of our own partnership votes, and yet we still accorded the partners a distant, irreverent kind of celebrity—sort of like the way kids talked about their teachers in junior high. As a minority woman, I related a lot to the main character Ingrid and the conflict she faces between who she is and who she wants to be.

It was rumored that Liz had taken this job in hopes of snagging a male attorney, any male attorney, on track for partner. Enormous picture windows ran along two sides of his office and all the way to the ceiling, flooding the room with midday sunlight that glinted off the top of Adler's shiny bald head. Now, I told Ted Lassiter that after we meet with him Thursday, we'd get a preliminary draft term sheet to the other side by end of next week. Sitting off by yourself, not surprisingly, was the worst kind of professional suicide—you might as well walk around wearing a big SOCIAL LIABILITY sign around your neck.

The guy in front of me, some fourth-year Litigation associate I'd never spoken to, was busily scratching a client matter number onto a checkout form with a stubby yellow golf pencil. Scrambling to do damage control, Parsons Valentine announces a new “Diversity Initiative” and commands a reluctant Ingrid to spearhead the effort, taking her priority away from the enormous deal that was to be the final step in securing partnership.