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Morning Roundup

Morning Roundup

Good morning everyone! Today is Monday, March 1, and here’s a quick look back at Friday’s news… Profits and revenue decline at Debevoise & Plimpton… Ogletree Deakins open a new…

Seyfarth Releases Details about It’s Merit-Based Plan

Seyfarth Releases Details about It’s Merit-Based Plan

Seyfarth Shaw has released more details about its move to a merit-based associate compensation plan. This plan will be phased in over several months in 2010 and place associates in…

Morning Roundup

Morning Roundup

Good morning! Today is Wednesday, January 20, and here’s a look back at Tuesday’s news. Jones Walker picks up a former US Attorney… Gibson Dunn has launched an E-Discovery practice……

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 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…

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…

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…

WilmerHale Ditches Lockstep

WilmerHale Ditches Lockstep

WilmerHale is abandoning lockstep compensation and adopting a merit based three tiered system that should look familiar to anyone that’s read these pages over the past few months. The new…

Sutherland Ditches Lockstep

Sutherland Ditches Lockstep

Atlanta based Sutherland is joining the rush to abandon lockstep compensation and is moving to a merit based system similar to the one other top firms have adopted or are…