Top 50 Biglaw Firm Delights Associates With Big Ol' Raises

Big raises for this big firm.

Money backgroundMarch may be rapidly coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean the associate salary game is over!

Just the other day, Holland & Knight — on the back of the firm’s “strongest financial performance in the history of the firm” — announced raises for hardworking associates. And, of course, with $1,044,337,000 in gross revenue in 2020, making it 38th on the Am Law 100, the firm is matching that top-of-market compensation grid popularized by Cravath.

For associates — well, at least the ones in the Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Orange County, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Samford, Tysons, and Washington, D.C. offices — the new salary scale at Holland & Knight is as follows:

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Like the last set of raises, these are retroactive to January 1. You can read the memo on the next page.

*** Wondering if the grass is greener on the in-house side? Click here for a look inside the black box of corporate counsel pay in our 2021 In-House Compensation Report. ***

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Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. 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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