Now that Cravath has settled into its apparent new role as a market follower, other firms have decided to dutifully fall in line with Milbank’s incredibly early year-end bonus announcement.
Once again, commercial litigation boutique Holwell Shuster & Goldberg — the firm founded by Judge Richard Holwell (formerly of the Southern District of New York) and his former White & Case colleagues Mike Shuster, Dan Goldberg, and Dorit Ungar Black — has taken the lead on compensation and joined Milbank in announcing bonuses, ahead of almost all the other Biglaw firms that will match the market in the days and weeks to come.
Here’s a kind note to associates that was included in the firm’s bonus memo:
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2019 was another great year for the firm as we continued to deliver top notch legal services to our clients, achieve impressive victories on their behalf and add remarkably talented attorneys to our bench. You are all a big part of what makes the firm’s successes possible and why HSG is a very special place to practice law.
Read the full bonus memo on the next page. Money will land in associates’ bank accounts on or before December 31.
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