Let’s start with the easy part. Associates in the New York office of Pillsbury are having their salaries restored to the level they would have been at had they never been frozen in the first place, so long as they met their billable hour target of 1,755 hours. Associates that missed their target [...]
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San Francisco’s Orrick, which laid off 300 employees in March, is abandoning lock-step compensation for associates. Under a lock-step scheme, associate salaries are determined entirely by how long the associate has been with the firm. Orrick’s new compensation model places associates on the partner track into one of three levels: Associate, Managing Associate, and Senior Associate. Compensation [...]
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
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