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Nationwide Salary Cut Watch: Perkins Coie Makes a Tiny Incision

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Might this be the kindest cut of all? Perkins Coie just announced a salary cut for associates, but it’s rather small — and it was accompanied by good news.
Today a firm-wide voice mail from managing partner Robert Giles went out, announcing the following:

— an average 3.8 percent pay cut for Perkins Coie associates, effective September 1;
— deferred salary rollbacks in some offices — e.g., Menlo Park — until “our competitors in these markets rollback associate salaries” (hmm, sounds like an invitation to us); and
— an expression of confidence that there will be no more layoffs this year.

We reached out to Bob Giles, who confirmed the accuracy of the foregoing.
All in all, it’s on the mild side for bad news, sort of like the firm’s modest layoffs back in April (just 12 attorneys). No wonder Perkins employees seem to like the place so much.
P.S. Congratulations to Perkins Coie partner Harry Schneider, this year’s winner of the American Inns of Court’s Professionalism Award for the Ninth Circuit. We met Schneider at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, where the honor was presented to him in person. Schneider successfully represented Guantanamo detainee Salim Hamdan in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
Earlier: Prior ATL coverage of Perkins Coie

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