merit-based bonuses

Spring Bonuses at WilmerHale

Like so many of its counterparts, WilmerHale announced that associates will receive a spring bonus to be paid on April…

Phoenix, Arizona's Snell & Wilmer, which in May laid off between 30 and 40 staff members, has now cut associate…

Incoming associates at Cincinnati's Frost Brown Todd will get a lower salary, although specific numbers have not been released. In…

Kilpatrick Stockton will cut associate salaries by 10%, effective July 1st. So, Happy Independence Day! Starting pay for associates will…

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal plans to cut associate salaries, beginning June 1st. First year salaries, previously a Biglaw standard $160,000,…

New York’s Skadden has announced it will not raise salaries for counsel in 2009. Associates will not be affected. The…

Linklaters is cutting pay for starting lawyers, and shrinking salary increases. The firm will pay new lawyers £61,500 ($91,300), down…

Chadbourne & Parke, which laid off 25 lawyers last month, has informed its attorneys and staff that salaries will be…

London' Simmons & Simmons is freezing associate pay starting May 1st. The firm is creating a special bonus pool to…

Philadelphia's Morgan Lewis & Bockius will adopt a merit-based bonus system for associates in 2009. The firm is doing away…

Los Angeles-based Latham & Watkins is freezing 2009 salaries at 2008 levels. While we anticipate that the diversity of our practices…