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Morning Roundup

Morning Roundup

Good morning everyone! As we wind our way closer to Christmas, we’ll continue to bring you what news there is, but anticipate a bit of a slowdown. In the meantime,…

Holland & Knight is the Next to Abandon Lockstep

Holland & Knight is the Next to Abandon Lockstep

I think it’s time for some new terminology. Lockstep compensation referred in the past to associates moving up in pay scale in “lockstep” with their contemporaries. All associates from the…

Kelley Drye Trifecta – Abandon Lockstep, Freeze Salaries, Pay Bonuses

Kelley Drye Trifecta – Abandon Lockstep, Freeze Salaries, Pay Bonuses

In a firm wide email sent out yesterday, Kelley Drye managed to fold what would typically be three different stories into one. Over the next two years, Kelley Drye will…

Ninth Circuit Approves Limited TV Coverage of Federal Trials

Ninth Circuit Approves Limited TV Coverage of Federal Trials

The 9th Circuit has approved limited television coverage of some federal trials within the circuit. Criminal trials and jury trials will not be covered and individual judges will have to…

Secret Bonuses

Secret Bonuses

Over the last two days word has been trickling in about the bonuses at Sidley Austin and today we starting to get some reports from Gibson Dunn as well. Apparently…

Stroock Pays Bonuses, Lifts Salary Freeze

Stroock Pays Bonuses, Lifts Salary Freeze

Stroock is handing out bonuses this year, and like so many before them, they’re paying on the Cravath schedule. That is, any associate that hit their billable hours target of…

Seyfarth Shaw Abandons Lockstep

Seyfarth Shaw Abandons Lockstep

Like many firms before it, Seyfarth Shaw is abandoning lockstep starting in 2011. Details haven’t been released, not even to the associates who must now spend next year trying to…

Morning Roundup

Morning Roundup

Good morning everyone! It’s Thursday, December 17, and here’s your snapshot of yesterday’s news… John Schulman, top counsel for Warner Bros for 25 years, has joined MS&K… Seyfarth Shaw picks…

Former Top Lawyer for Warner Brothers Joins Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp

Former Top Lawyer for Warner Brothers Joins Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp

John Schulman, lead counsel for Warner Brothers for 25 years, has joined Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp where he will be chairman of its entertainment department. Schulman retired from Warner Brothers…

William Kahn Moves to Seyfarth Shaw

William Kahn Moves to Seyfarth Shaw

Yesterday William Kahn was an associate at Hogan & Hartson, or an associate at what will soon be Hogan Lovells. Today Kahn is a partner at Seyfarth Shaw. With firms…