Updated list of non-freeze firms
Again, please post additions/corrections in the comments.
Baker Botts
Baker Hostetler
Baker & McKenzie
Bingham
Bracewell Giuliani
Cahill
Cleary
Clifford Chance
Covington
Cravath
Crowell & Moring
Debevoise
Dechert
Dewey
Fish and Richardson
Fitzpatrick Cella
Foley & Lardner
Gibson Dunn
Greenberg Traurig
Holland & Knight
Hughes Hubbard
Irell & Manella
Jones Day
Kaye Scholer
Kenyon & Kenyon
King & Spalding
Kirkland
Linklaters
Morgan Lewis
Munger
O'Melveny
Paul Hastings
Paul Weiss
Simpson Thacher
Skadden
Sullivan
Vinson Elkins
Weil
White & Case
Williams & Connolly
Willkie Farr
Winston & Strawn
(34) Comments
Dechert may not have frozen attorney salaries, but they did freeze all staff salaries.
Seyfarth Shaw has not frozen (at least not yet)
hows kaye scholer doing?
Simpson has not yet released this year's compensation memo.
Shearman did not freeze.
Wouldn't it be easier to list the firms that are freezing, which the main articles should cover, than to list all the firms that are not?
Fried Frank did not freeze.
Add Ropes to the non-freeze list.
Ropes circulated a non-freeze memo on 1/14.
Please add them to the non-freeze list.
Proskauer announced raises on 1/14
Boies Schiller did not freeze.
you can add mcdermott will & emery to that list.
10:12 am (McDERMOTT WILL & EMERY).
Actually, McDermott is handling salaries a bit different than other Chicago firms, and most associate that I've spoken with about the process agree that it is eminently fair and will reward hard-working, loyal associates. The firm will
* freeze salaries for 1st and 2d years,
* provide normal class year raises to 3d and 4th years, and
* provide discretionary (read, above-market) raises to 5th and 6th years.
Cat is out of the bag in Chicago. Friends in NY and DC have not heard anything about it yet.
Quinn Emanuel did not freeze.
1:06 pm -- This is fucked up. Its the fisrt and second years at Mcdermott that end up doing the grunt work and, more than any 5-6 year associates, 1st and 2nd years should be getting the bonuses. We put in more hours than our senior colleagues! Real good 5th and 6th years are a dime a dozen; its hard to find great 1st years. And when Mcdermott finds them (as it did when it hired me), said first years should be rewarded with kick ass bonuses!
put these in Vault ranking pls.
Fish may very well be coming off this list
Did Davis Polk freeze?
ATL has FUCKED us by normalizing this pay freeze BS
Bingham froze today. And announced half Skadden bonuses.
We've got a slurpee freeze at Fish & Richardson . . . take'em off the list.
Davis Polk did not freeze.
McDERMOTT WILL & EMERY has institute new policy that unfairly rewards senior associates at teh expence of the juniors. Firm is a full of a bunch of cheap, assclowns.
take baker off that list. they announced to attorneys last week that they're freezing and will be conducting more layoffs.
@12:39 - which baker are you speaking of? There are three baker firms included in this list. I am sure your firm is the "true" baker, but please work on your clarity for the sake of the other readers.
sorry, baker & mckenzie.
winston hasnt released its compensation memo yet
Add WilmerHale to the non-freeze list.
Ropes and Gray already announced pay raises. So add us to the non-freeze list.
TEXAS FIRMS THAT USE DEFERRED COMPENSATION SCHEMES IN CONJUNCTION WITH MINIMUM HOUR REQUIREMENTS SHOULD NOT BE ON THIS LIST!!!
Reed Smith did not freeze. Not sure how the rumor started that they did
Faegre & Benson has not done a freeze, yet. They have offered Voluntary Separation pacakges to many long time staff, though. Budget is tight, but nothing major has happened. I do not detect any associate layoffs, either.
Take GT off the list. They are handling it on an office-by-office basis, but at a minimum each office is freezing salaries. Some are even cutting pay for under-performers or moving to a deferred compensation system based on 2008 salaries.
winston froze