Associate Salaries
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Biglaw, Small Law Firms
Associates Should Share Salary Information With Each Other
Sharing salary information is only awkward if firms use ignorance to take advantage of attorneys who should be earning more money. -
Biglaw
Salaries Are Up And So Are The Non-Traditional Benefits
The key to finding an employer that fits your style may be in the perks. - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get… -
Biglaw
Biglaw Bonus Season: Is It Time To Pay Double Associate Bonuses?
If firms want to start handing out exorbitant bonuses, just let Above the Law know first.
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Law Schools
The Most Important Chart In The Legal Industry, And It Has Nothing To Do With The Law
You're probably not going to be making $190K when you graduate. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 10.06.17
* Salary hikes (in London). [Legal Cheek]
* Travel bans and compelling interests. [Dorf on Law]
* Speaking of SCOTUS, Adam Feldman reads the oral-argument tea leaves from the first week of the new Term. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* And devotees of Justice Antonin Scalia might want to check out Scalia Speaks (affiliate link), a collection of the late jurist’s speeches edited by son Christopher Scalia and former law clerk Ed Whelan. [Bloomberg BNA]
* Did this court just gut her whole job description? [New York Law Journal]
* It can be challenging for creators to protect their IP; could a small-claims court for copyright be the answer? [Copyright Alliance]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.02.17
* Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families, friends, and colleagues of the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, which took place last night in Las Vegas, Nevada. [New York Times]
* “There’s only one prediction that’s entirely safe about the upcoming term. It will be momentous.” The Supreme Court’s October Term 2017 begins today, and it will be Justice Neil Gorsuch’s first full term. The docket features issues like voting rights, religion and discrimination, workers’ rights, and digital privacy, and Trump’s DOJ has radically flipped its position from that of prior administrations in many of the cases, which hasn’t happened in decades. [New York Times]
* Jeffrey Toobin wonders, “How badly is Neil Gorsuch annoying the other Supreme Court justices?” Based on the junior justice’s behavior thus far — from his seemingly politicized appearances to his domination of oral arguments to his dissenting jab at Justice Kennedy — the answer could very well be PRETTY BADLY. [New Yorker]
* You may have grown up, but you’re still a Toys “R” Us kid at heart, so you’ll want to know how much these Biglaw firms are charging Geoffrey the Giraffe for their representation in the toy store’s bankruptcy. Partners and of counsel are billing up to $1,745 per hour, and associates are billing up to $1,015 per hour. [Am Law Daily]
* Biglaw salary wars are heating up across the pond, with Clifford Chance having recently decided to boost pay for newly qualified associates to £87,300 (~$116,933.99) a year in total compensation. Other firms like Freshfields and Linklaters have also instituted salary hikes, while Slaughter & May has frozen associate pay. [Law.com]
* “This, all of this, allows me to prove my story is useful.” Reginald Dwayne Betts, the Yale Law School graduate whose dreams of being able to practice law after passing the bar exam were deferred thanks to a decades-old felony carjacking conviction, was finally admitted to the Connecticut bar. Congratulations! [Hartford Courant]
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Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Money, Partner Issues
Stats Of The Week: The Great Associate Pay Raise Of 2016
What story do these numbers tell? - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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Biglaw, Money
Median Starting Salary For Associates Remains Flat, Despite Move To $180K
Sorry, but not all law firms are paying big bucks to first-year associates. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.02.17
* Let’s get ready to rumble: the Trump administration seeks Supreme Court review — and rescue — of its travel ban. [New York Times]
* In other federal judicial news, the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, held that courts cannot routinely shackle defendants during proceedings; Judge Alex Kozinski wrote the majority opinion, and former Kozinski clerk Judge Sandra Ikuta wrote the dissent. [How Appealing]
* Judge Nicholas Garaufis (E.D.N.Y.) — who isn’t shy about telling lawyers how he really feels — has a new bee in his Article III bonnet: “I’m sick and tired of lawyers from white-shoe law firms marching into my courtroom and getting a deferred-prosecution agreement for their clients.” [ABA Journal]
* Why did President Donald Trump hire Marc Kasowitz to represent him in the Russia inquiry — and could DJT already be second-guessing that decision? [Weekly Standard]
* Speaking of the Russia probe, Robert Mueller is getting some high-powered help: outgoing Justice Department official Andrew Weissmann joins his former boss’s team. [Law360]
* Interesting new data from our friends at NALP: the $180K starting salary might not be as widespread as you think. [Law.com]
* President Trump plans to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate deal — but withdrawal can’t be finalized until near the end of his term because of the accord’s legal structure and language. [Washington Post]
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Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Money
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: It's Never Too Late
When it comes to pay raises (and coverage thereof), better late than never. -
Biglaw, Billable Hours, Bonuses, Money
Another Biglaw Firm Raises Billing Requirements In The Wake Of The Pay Raise
This is becoming a trend, and it's not surprising. -
Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Partner Issues
Could Biglaw See Another Associate Pay Raise -- Followed By A Recession?
Another pay raise is possible; another recession is likely.
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Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Money
Firm Finally Announces Raises And Associates Are Less Than Excited
After nine months, these associates have finally learned their new salaries. -
Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Money
The Real Reason Cravath Raised Salaries
Some brutal honesty from the folks at the top. -
Associate Salaries, Money
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: Which Firm Pays A Starting Salary Of $200,000?
This firm has bumped up its first-year salaries not once, but twice in the past nine months. -
Biglaw, Money
Firm Announces Raises Coming In February
Better late than never... another firm raises salaries. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.20.16
* So much for Prof. Lawrence Lessig having flipped at least 20 Republican electors: Only two “faithless electors” from Texas refused to cast their votes for President-elect Donald Trump, choosing John Kasich and Ron Paul instead. At the end of the day, more Democrats chose not to support their party’s nominee, Hillary Clinton. [The Hill]
* Sorry, but Chief Justice John Roberts won’t grant your emergency petition to force the Senate hold a confirmation vote on President Obama’s SCOTUS pick, Judge Merrick Garland (D.C. Cir.). Instead, Judge Garland will resume hearing cases on January 18, and President-elect Trump will make his nomination after his inauguration. [Reuters]
* With the new year almost upon us and 2017 financial forecasts being made for the largest firms in the country, the great salary increase of 2016 has come up again and again as a major cost suck for some Biglaw firms. How costly was it? According to Aric Press, “[t]his will cost the average Am Law 100 firm, with headcount at 930 lawyers, about $11.6 million a year, or $57,300 per equity partner.” [Big Law Business]
* Working Mother is surveying law firms to determine which ones offer the best environment for lawyers with kids. The publication will release a list of the 50 best firms, and the deadline for participation is February 10. Help your firm get recognized for something that could help steer the direction of an associate’s career. [ABA Journal]
* Are you running behind on purchasing your gifts this holiday season? Worry not, because thanks to the legalization of marijuana in these eight jurisdictions, you can give your friends and family the gift of ganja without being criminally prosecuted: Colorado, Massachusetts, Nevada, California, Maine, Alaska, and Washington, D.C. [INVERSE]
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Biglaw, Bonuses, Money
Associate Bonus Watch: The First Cravath Matches
These two firms were the first matchers last year as well. -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Money
Associate Bonus Watch: Cravath Announces Its 2016 Associate Bonuses!
Hooray! The 2016 Biglaw bonus season is now underway!