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Elite Litigation Powerhouse Blasts Davis Polk Salary Scale Out Of The Water

This firm isn't just making it rain on associates -- the firm is making it pour!

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What’s the best way to ensure that associates at your firm have a wonderful weekend? By announcing big-time — we’re talking huge — salary raises on Friday night. How exciting!

At litigation powerhouse Williams & Connolly, salaries are typically difficult to cover due to the firm’s black-box feel. While salaries are known to be slightly above market, associates at the firm usually remain relatively quiet as far as their compensation is concerned — that is, until now.

Please note the UPDATE below.

According to memo sent on Friday, the firm is now paying lockstep salaries across all class years, and those salaries are way, way above market. Check it out:

For the Class of 2021, that’s $17,500 more than the DPW scale, and for the Classes of 2013 and earlier, that’s $35,000 more than the DPW scale. That’s quite the payday for associates at the firm.

UPDATE (1:30 p.m.): Sources note that while salaries alone at Williams & Connolly beat the new Davis Polk salary scale, their complete compensation is under market. Why’s that? There are no bonuses of any kind to had at W&C. Without year-end bonuses or special bonuses, the only remarkable thing here is the firm’s above-market raise structure.

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These new mega-salaries will go into effect on September 1. Congratulations!

(Flip to the next page to see the memo from Williams & Connolly.)

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Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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