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Mayer Brown Raises Salaries Back to Pre-Recession Levels

Mayer Brown Raises Salaries Back to Pre-Recession Levels

The salary marketis starting to crystallize now. Mayer Brown today joined other top tier firms in restoring associate salaries back to pre-recession levels. That means everyone is being bumped up…

Chadbourne & Parke Does Right by its Associates

Chadbourne & Parke Does Right by its Associates

If you’re a Chadbourne & Parke associate, we urge you to resist the temptation to gloat a little when talking to friends at other firms today. If you’re friends with…

Bonuses and Thaws at Wilson Sonsini

Bonuses and Thaws at Wilson Sonsini

Wilson Sonsini is thawing salaries, and using the Cooley Godward model. First years are getting $160k, third years are making $170k (had their been no salary freeze they would be…

Hughes Hubbard Thaws Salaries, Issues Bonuses

Hughes Hubbard Thaws Salaries, Issues Bonuses

Hughes Hubbard is thawing out salaries and junior associates are getting a double bump, placing them where they would have been had there been no salary freeze. Senior associates are…

Cooley Godward Salary Thaw, and is there a Market Rate Anymore?

Cooley Godward Salary Thaw, and is there a Market Rate Anymore?

Cooley Godward has lifted last year’s salary freeze, sort of. First years will continue to make $160k, which puts them ahead of firms that have cut first year salaries, second…

Merit Based Pay at Drinker Biddle

Merit Based Pay at Drinker Biddle

Drinker Biddle is moving to a merit based pay system, becoming the latest in a string of major law firms to abandon lockstep compensation. Under the new plan associates in…

Dickstein Shapiro Abandoning Lockstep

Dickstein Shapiro Abandoning Lockstep

The lockstep march away from lockstep compensation continues unabated as 2010 gets into full swing. The latest firm to join the thundering herd is Dickstein Shapiro, which will initiate a…

Salary Cuts at Kaye Scholer

Salary Cuts at Kaye Scholer

Kaye Scholer is cutting first year associate salaries to $145k, but unlike many other firms they aren’t doing it under the guise of abandoning lockstep compensation. Additionally, any associate that…

Salary Cuts and Merit Based Compensation at McDermott Will & Emery

Salary Cuts and Merit Based Compensation at McDermott Will & Emery

McDermott Will & Emery is moving to a merit based compensation system beginning in 2011. Like several other merit based plans we’ve detailed on these pages, this is a three…

Salary Cut at Pillsbury Winthrop

Salary Cut at Pillsbury Winthrop

Pillsbury’s first year associates outside of New York are receiving a salary cut, down to $145k. Any first year that bills in excess of 1950 hours will receive an additional…

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