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Biglaw Firm Raises Salaries -- But Don't Get Too Excited

The firm still employs the dreaded block box for everyone but first-year associates.

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Listen, at the end of the day, any raise is better than no raise. And while associates may get pangs of jealousy when they hear about the $205,000 pay day for their peers, there’s still a place for Biglaw firms that don’t live up to the big raises going around.

Snell & Wilmer, a firm with $283,500,000 in gross revenue last year making it 115th on the AmLaw 200, announced raises this week. But they’re not quite as generous as other Biglaw firms are handing out. Announced during an associate town hall, salary raises will vary by location. According to tipsters at the firm, first-year associates will be on the following scale, effective July 4th:

LA/OC/SD/DC: $190k
Denver/PHX/SLC: $150k
LV/Portland: $145k
Reno/Tucson: $135k

As for everyone besides first-year associates, well that’s a black box.

Firm chair Matt Feeney said during the town hall that practice group leaders would call associates to communicate their new salary. And the new salary increases will NOT be uniform across class years, meaning some variance (either up or down) in the raises.

While this isn’t the $205,000 scale that has emerged a the new standard, insiders seem happy the firm is responding to the market at all:

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This was long overdue, and while it did not match the DP scale, it will make it harder for associates that are comfortable to leave.

Congrats on whatever your raises turn out to be!

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Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, and host of The Jabot podcast. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).

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