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Summer Associate Offer Rates (2017): A Guide For 1Ls Dreaming Of Biglaw Bucks

If you're an incoming law student with dreams of a $180K Biglaw salary, this is a must-read.

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Orientation for first-year students at law schools across the country begins in a few weeks, and most incoming students are dreaming about the $180K salaries they believe they’re sure to receive upon snagging a Biglaw job — and luckily for them, Biglaw hiring seems to be up. For those of you who wish to keep the Biglaw fantasy alive, we’ve compiled a list of all of the law firms that have extended offers to 100 percent of their most recent summer associate classes.

How many first-year associates in large law firms across America will soon be cashing in on those extravagant $180K paychecks? If you’re an incoming law student, we’ve got some information that’ll help you answer that question.

Following up on last week’s post on Biglaw offer rates, here are more firms that have given offers to all of their summer associates:

  • Brown Rudnick (Boston)
  • Proskauer Rose (Boston)
  • Greenberg Traurig (Chicago)
  • K&L Gates (Chicago)
  • Sidley Austin (Chicago)
  • Vinson & Elkins (Dallas)
  • Baker Botts (Houston)
  • Kirkland & Ellis (Houston; one was allegedly a “soft” offer)
  • Manatt (Los Angeles)
  • Milbank (Los Angeles)
  • Baker Botts (New York)
  • DLA Piper (New York)
  • Greenberg Traurig (New York)
  • Hogan Lovells (New York)
  • Norton Rose Fulbright (New York)
  • Weil Gotshal (New York)
  • Baker Botts (Palo Alto)
  • Baker Botts (San Francisco)
  • Gibson Dunn (San Francisco)
  • Morrison & Foerster (Tokyo)
  • Sidley Austin (Washington, D.C.)
  • Akin Gump (firmwide)
  • Paul Hastings (firmwide)

Congratulations to everyone on their offers. If you’re an incoming law student, you may someday know the joy of what it’s like to receive a Biglaw offer.

If you have offer rate additions to this list to share or if you have corrections to the list — e.g., an office listed above that does NOT belong on the 100 percent list — please email us (subject line: “[Firm Name] Summer Associate Offer Rates”), or text us (646-820-8477). We keep our tipsters anonymous. If and when we receive enough information, we’ll do another follow-up.

Right now, it’s more newsworthy if a firm does NOT have a 100 percent offer rate than if it does. On that note, please let us hear about firms that are NOT issuing offers to all their summer associates. If you know of a firm or an office with an unusually low offer rate — which we will arbitrarily define here as something under 66 percent, or two-thirds — please email us (subject line: “[Firm Name] Low Offer Rate”). If we hear about any firms with particularly low offer rates, we will investigate and perhaps write a story.

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Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky has been an editor at Above the Law since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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