Another Biglaw Firm Rewards Associates With Second Round Of Raises

Big money at this Biglaw firm.

downloading the prize money truckAnother Biglaw firm is dumping big money on associates to stay at the top of the salary mountain.

The latest firm to announce their own match of the Cravath scale is none other than Schulte Roth & Zabel, which took in $444,700,000 in gross revenue in 2020, making it 90th in the Am Law 100. The firm previously announced a match of the Davis Polk scale, but now that Cravath has come over the top, so has Schulte.

For those who have not yet memorized the new scale, this is the compensation grid at Schulte:

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The raises are retroactive to January 1. You can read the full 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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