first-year associates

Cooley Litigation Head Says Business is Rebounding

A report out of the Bay Area indicates things are looking up for the legal sector, at least in California. The…

Associates at DLA Piper are receiving a 10 percent pay raise that will return salaries to their pre-recession levels, the…

Reports out of Texas indicate Vinson & Elkins has tabbed Oct. 4 as the day its 2010 first-year associates can…

Chadbourne & Parke revealed yesterday that 11 of its 2009 first-year associates, which had been deferred to a 2010 start…

According to an internal memo to associates, Winston & Strawn is thawing salaries while also ending lockstep compensation. The memo…

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

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

Up until this week, the scale for bonuses seemed pretty set in stone with every firm falling in lockstep with…

-Insert cookie cutter story here- Debevoise & Plimpton announced bonuses today. Second verse, same as the first... I'm rapidly running…

Seyfarth Shaw has told half of its deferred associates that they will not be starting in January as planned. Instead,…

Just a few weeks after announcing it was moving away from lockstep compensation and doing away with associate classes, Reed…

Incoming associates at Kaye Scholer will all start in January, right on (deferred) schedule. The only thing is, half of…