associate compensation

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…

Hughes Hubbard is thawing out salaries and junior associates are getting a double bump, placing them where they would have…

Cooley Godward has lifted last year's salary freeze, sort of. First years will continue to make $160k, which puts them…

Drinker Biddle is moving to a merit based pay system, becoming the latest in a string of major law firms…

The lockstep march away from lockstep compensation continues unabated as 2010 gets into full swing. The latest firm to join…

Kaye Scholer is cutting first year associate salaries to $145k, but unlike many other firms they aren't doing it under…

McDermott Will & Emery is moving to a merit based compensation system beginning in 2011. Like several other merit based…

Pillsbury's first year associates outside of New York are receiving a salary cut, down to $145k. Any first year that…

Los Angeles based Irell & Manella gave its associates the good news last week. The firm is paying double the…

Dechert is paying year end bonuses that should, by now, look familiar to those following the industry. Like many of…

At the start of 2009 Arnold & Porter announced that it was freezing salaries but held out the hope that…

Mayer Brownassociates got the news on Christmas Eve - the firm is matching the Cravath bonus scale. $7500 for first…