Perks / Fringe Benefits
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Biglaw, Disasters / Emergencies, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Biglaw Perk Watch: Billable Hour Credit During Emergencies or Disasters?
Emergency kits, like the ones doled out by Davis Polk, are nice. But billable-hour credit during an emergency is even nicer. From a curious correspondent: Here’s a question you may want to pose to your readers: How has your law firm dealt billable hour requirements when the office if officially closed due to an emergency […] -
Department of Justice, Exercise, Federal Government, Health Care / Medicine, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Federal Government Perk Watch: Germ-y Gyms
If you’re an employee of the U.S. Department of Justice, and your name isn’t Susana Lorenzo-Giguere, your job probably doesn’t have many perks. They toss a few four-dollar meatballs your way, and public outcry ensues. And now you can’t even go to the office gym, thanks to a potential outbreak of staph infections, aka “Staphylococcus […] - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Health Care / Medicine, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Biglaw Perk Watch: Flu Shots!
Our parents keep reminding us to get a flu shot (which we haven’t gotten yet this year). If we worked for a law firm, maybe we wouldn’t have to worry about this. From a tipster: My firm provides flu shots for all of its employees every flu season. I was wondering if this was typical. […]
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Books, Libraries / Librarians, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Samuel Alito
Biglaw Perk Watch: Librarians (Especially Cool Ones)
In case you haven’t noticed, we have thing for law librarians around here. We’ve given them their own category tag, and we previously held a law librarian hotties contest (male nominees here, female nominees here, and winners here). In our recent New York Observer column about Cadwalader, we also tried to include a shout-out to […] -
Biglaw, Money, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Skaddenfreude
Biglaw Reversed Perk Watch: The K&L Gates 401(k) Memo
Yesterday’s tip about K&L Gates no longer making contributions to attorney 401k plans has been confirmed. We’ve obtained the memo, which our source introduced as follows: Here’s the memo re: today’s post on K&L Gates. No further materials or communications have since occurred, save a videoconference from firm Chairman [Peter] Kalis, where in response to […] -
Biglaw, Money, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Skaddenfreude
Biglaw Reversed Perk Watch: K&L Gates Cuts off 401(k) Contributions?
When it comes to perks and fringe benefits, Biglaw giveth, and Biglaw taketh away. From a tipster: Did you see the internal memo at K&L Gates announcing that the firm will cease contributions to attorney 401k plans? I found it interesting because it mentioned that similar reductions are occurring at other “major firms.” Which strikes […] -
Akin Gump, Biglaw, Books, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants
Biglaw Perk Watch: Secretaries / Administrative Assistants
During one of our darkest hours as a law firm associate, when we were at our most stressed and depressed, we tried to boost our morale by typing up a Word document entitled “Things I Like About My Job.” Here’s an excerpt: — My Blackberry and (free) cell phone. — My laptop. — Really good […] -
Fashion, Guantanamo Bay, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Prisons, War on Terror
Guantanamo Bay Perk Watch: Under Armor Briefs!
Life for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, while difficult, isn’t 100 percent grim. From yesterday’s Washington Post: Undergarments from Under Armour, the sports apparel line, offer “all-day performance, delivered in a lightweight compression fit,” at least according to the company’ s promotional material. While “unprecedented” in its ability to deliver comfort, Under Armour underwear is not […] - Sponsored
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Breasts, Feminism, Food, Gender, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Biglaw Perk Watch: Lactation Rooms
We continue our series profiling the perks or fringe benefits of life at a large law firm. This one may be the breast one yet. From a (male) tipster: A friend of mine ran across this Simpson Thatcher perk: “The Firm maintains a lactation room for new mothers in each of its New York, Los […] -
Biglaw, Money, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Technology, Wall Street
Biglaw Perk Watch: Equity Compensation Schemes
Our somewhat flagging coverage of the perks or fringe benefits of law firm life is getting reinvigorated, thanks to your suggestions. If you have an idea for a perk that merits discussion, please review our prior coverage (scroll down), to make sure we haven’t covered it already. If we haven’t, then please send your idea […] -
Biglaw, Food, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Biglaw Perk Watch: Rewards for Big Billers
Our series on the perks or fringe benefits of large law firm life has become somewhat sporadic, partly because we’ve covered so many of the biggies. To review our past posts, click here, and scroll down. Today’s perk: prizes for big billers. If you really kill yourself during a particular month, racking up 250 or […] -
Biglaw, Football, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Sports
Biglaw Perk Watch: Tickets to Sporting Events
A tipster sent us this article, with a special request for our ongoing series on law firm perks: “How about a story on REAL perks? It’s football season, and Foley & Lardner has a suite at Camp Randall, home of the No. 5 Wisconsin Badgers.” “Can we compare the perks at The Garden, Fenway, Yankee […] -
Biglaw, Fashion, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Biglaw Perk Watch: A Business Casual Dress Code
We’re picking up our somewhat dormant series of posts on the perks or fringe benefits of large law firm life. Today’s topic: a business casual dress code. When we were at a firm, we didn’t enjoy this particular privilege. In fact, our firm required business attire on every weekday — even Fridays during the summer. […]
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Arnold & Porter, Biglaw, Environment / Environmental Law, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Biglaw Perk Watch: How Green Was My Valley Law Firm
The latest post in our series on perks / fringe benefits isn’t a “perk” per se. But it is, like true perks, a non-monetary factor that some people may take into account when choosing between law firms. The topic: eco-friendliness, or how “green” a law firm is. From a tipster: I think you should do […] -
Biglaw, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Real Estate
Biglaw Perk Watch: A Room of One's Own
The subject of today’s Biglaw perk post is short and sweet. From a tipster: Will you do a thread on a private office as a Biglaw perk — i.e., whether first and/or second year associates have to share an office? This subject may not be sexy, but it’s important. Having an officemate makes it harder […] -
Allen & Overy, Biglaw, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Biglaw Perk Watch: Working Abroad
Our posts on the perks or fringe benefits of law firm life continue to generate interest and good comments. Here is today’s topic: Why don’t you guys do an open thread on working abroad? I know of several firms that send their associates for some period of time to work [overseas]. For example, Allen & […] -
Perks / Fringe Benefits
Biglaw Perk Watch: Nap Rooms?
Lawyers work long hours. They end up sleep-deprived. Do their employers care to do anything about it? From a recent New York Times article: Q. If it’s natural to rest in the afternoon, why don’t more companies tolerate napping? A. A few companies do offer nap rooms as a perk. And in some businesses where […] -
Biglaw, Drinking, Parties, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Biglaw Perk Watch: Happy Hours
Many of the hours that Biglaw attorneys are familiar with are of the billable (and unhappy) variety. But some firms try to make up for the misery by plying their employees with alcohol. Welcome to the latest perk to be discussed in these pages: happy hours. [FN1] A few questions, from an associate-to-be: This fall […] -
Biglaw, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pro Bono, White & Case
Biglaw Perk Watch: Pro Bono Work
The subject of today’s perk post may not jump to mind as a perk or fringe benefit, but we think it’s important and worthy of inclusion here. From a reader: Please do a “perks” thread on pro bono work. What kind of opportunities are presented? How are the hours counted (if at all), both de […] -
Biglaw, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Biglaw Perk Watch: Massages
The individual who ran this Google search presumably isn’t at Sidley Austin. Because if he were, he wouldn’t have gotten fleeced on his massage. From a tipster: Sidley is now going to have chair massages every Friday. They come by on Fridays for 5 hours; you have to make an appointment. While it’s not free, […]