Perks / Fringe Benefits

As we mentioned yesterday, over the next week or two we’ll be doing a series of posts on fringe benefits at law firms. Each day we’ll have a post dedicated to discussion of a specific type of perk. Today’s fringe benefit: gym memberships. Although you might never have guessed, based on the proliferation of pasty […]

On Friday, we reported that if you’re at Skadden, you can use your $3,000 technology allowance to buy an iPhone. We now have some clarifications about that good news. From a Skadden source: 1. While you can use your tech allowance to buy just about anything “tech-y” at Skadden, the tech dept has made it […]

Lots of interesting debate in the comments over the wild rumor that Skadden might raise starting salaries to $195,000 before the year’s end. Some think it’s crazy talk. Others note that it might simply mark a return to Skadden’s prior practice of paying above-market base salaries, combined with smaller year-end bonuses (designed to bring total […]