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Career Center: Firms With Benefits

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Welcome to the next in our series on the results of the 2010 ATL/Career Center Associate Satisfaction survey.  We’ve used the survey results to revamp the Career Center, powered by Lateral Link, with completely updated profiles and each week, we are highlighting insider information that Members shared about their firms in the eight key areas of associate satisfaction covered by the Career Center.  Today, what’s in it for you – Benefits.  

  • This West Coast firm, specializing in representing high tech and life sciences clients, offers its associates the opportunity to participate in an investment partnership fund that invests in select clients.
  • This Midwestern firm, known for its work for Major League Baseball, lacks an on-site cafeteria or gym but makes up for it with "on-site massage and yoga classes."
  • This firm, known for its strong IP and technology practices, keeps its associates satisfied (calorie-wise) with bi-weekly attorney lunches, monthly "wine-and-cheese" hours, free soda, and "free pizza and beer every other Friday" in select offices. 
  • Associates at this New York-based firm, well-known for its bankruptcy and restructuring, litigation and private equity practices, receive a $750 annual subsidy to cover gym membership fees.  

More fun perks — perhaps your firm should adopt them? — after the jump.

  • This firm’s Washington, D.C. office, known for its corporate and business law, complex litigation, intellectual property and government affairs practices, has a rooftop bocce court for after-work play.  
  • This firm, which handles the most M&A transactions of any U.S. firm and nets more revenue than any other U.S. firm, awards a $50,000 bonus to associates with a one-year judicial clerkships and a $75,000 bonus to those with two-year clerkships. 
  • To assist with integration of new associates, attorneys at this Washington, D.C.-based firm can take new associates out during their first six months and the firm will pick up the tab.
  • This "entrepreneurial" firm, with just two offices, in New York and Paris, provides third-year and more senior associates with a "client relationship spending account" to entertain clients.
  • Although this New York-based firm provides weekly attorney breakfasts and pizza dinners, as well as subsidized gym membership and yoga classes to work off those free meals, Members say that as of 2009, the firm “no longer pay[s] bar association dues.”
  • Benefits at this litigation-only firm include a casual dress code (jeans and flip-flops are permitted), a raffle for Academy Award tickets, and "a subsidized mid-week ski trip to Tahoe in January."

For more on benefits and everything else you wanted to know about large law firms, visit the Career Center, powered by Lateral Link.

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