No one below partner status is allowed to call you out.
As senior as it gets without exempted partner status.
Apparently, he's had you in mind for partner status for quite a while.
But, Japan's willingness to accept this "junior partner" status is now eroding.
In this system, associate lawyers who fail to achieve partner status within ten years of hiring are required to leave.
It now has partner status with the Wildlife Conservation Network.
He moved to limited partner status, semiretirement, in 1970.
That option is open to whites - who get hired and reach partner status with degrees from middling law schools.
I believe that it would be wiser to develop some sort of special partner status, and deepen the neighbourhood policy.
Aahz was my teacher before he insisted that I be elevated to full partner status.