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K&L Gates Abolishes Mandatory Retirement Policy
The golden years just got a bit shinier at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis. Last week, the partnership voted to abolish the firm's mandatory retirement age policy, which was at 70. "Our management group for a while has believed that such provisions are ... outside the mainstream of enlightened thinking about older lawyers and older workers generally," says Peter Kalis, the firm's chairman and global managing partner.