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Snell & Wilmer Decimates Associate Salaries

Snell & Wilmer Decimates Associate Salaries

Phoenix, Arizona’s Snell & Wilmer, which in May laid off between 30 and 40 staff members, has now cut associate salaries by 10% across the board. The pay cuts are…

Fish & Richardson Will NOT Cut Associate Pay

Fish & Richardson Will NOT Cut Associate Pay

Contrary to early online reports, global intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson has not announced pay cuts. In fact, at a firmwide video conference earlier today, president Peter Devlin said…

Davis Wright Cuts Associate Salaries

Davis Wright Cuts Associate Salaries

Sources on the blawgosphere report that Seattle’s Davis Wright Tremaine has cut associate salaries by 5%. The cut affects all class years. Davis Wright is also pushing back start dates…

Update: Hogan & Hartson Reduces Pay for Certain First-Year Associates

Update: Hogan & Hartson Reduces Pay for Certain First-Year Associates

Yesterday Hogan & Hartson laid off 93 US support staff. Today we learn more about changes in compensation for associates who joined the firm in Fall 2008. Hogan offers two…

More Firms Adopting Merit-Based Pay for Associates

More Firms Adopting Merit-Based Pay for Associates

Many law firms are using the economic meltdown as an excuse to end seniority-based pay for associates, adopting “merit-based” systems similar to those used outside the legal profession. Examples in…

Simpson Thacher Assigns Associates Pro Bono Work

New York’s Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is sending some of its associates to year-long stints at nonprofit organizations. The firm has extended the duration of its public interest fellowships from…