Big Bonuses Not Just For Biglaw As Elite Boutique Announces Their Year-End Largesse

Bonus season is really rolling.

Goldfinch Bird Cartoon Character With Money BagBonus season isn’t just a Biglaw thing. Litigation boutique Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP delighted its associates with a bonus announcement of its own.

It was 10 years ago that Judge Richard Holwell of the Southern District of New York left the bench and created a litigation boutique along with his former White & Case colleagues, Michael Shuster, Daniel Goldberg, and Dorit Ungar Black. Now, Holwell Shuster & Goldberg is ~60 lawyers strong and the associates at the firm are getting Biglaw-sized bonuses this year.

The firm’s bonus scale, as announced today:
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As you can see, the firm is doing a full match of the prevailing market rate, through seventh-year associates. You can read the full memo on the next page.

Congratulations to associates on the generous bonuses!

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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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