Editing Partnership (section)

===Law firms===
The source of origination compensation is rarely seen outside of law firms. The principle is simply that each partner receives a share of the partnership profits up to a certain amount, with any additional profits being distributed to the partner who was responsible for the "origination" of the work that generated the profits.<ref name="clark"/>

British law firms tend to use the lockstep principle, whereas American firms are more accustomed to source of origination. When British firm [[Clifford Chance]] merged with American firm [[Rogers & Wells]], many of the difficulties associated with that [[merger]] were blamed on the difficulties of merging a lockstep culture with a source of origination culture.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Becker|first1=Amanda|title=Law firm merger activity picks up|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/02/AR2010070204907.html|access-date=22 September 2017|newspaper=Washington Post|date=5 July 2010}}</ref>