Associate Bonus Watch: Some Updates
We don’t really have any major bonus news to pass along. Here are a few items following up on previously reported developments: 1. Latham & Watkins: On Friday we reported on the LW bonuses, which...
View ArticleAssociate Bonus Watch: Morrison & Foerster (non-New York)
Before the New Year, associates in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster received their bonus news. Now it’s time for their colleagues outside of NYC to collect their cash. In addition to the...
View ArticleAssociate Bonus Watch: Wilson Sonsini, Akin Gump (DC), Quinn Emanuel
Here are a few quick updates on the associate bonus front: 1. Wilson Sonsini: On Monday night, the firm issued a long and complicated memo, which we’ve posted in all its glory after the jump. Since we...
View ArticleAssociate Bonus Watch: Kaye Scholer Bonus Follow-Up(And Other Random Tidbits...
A little follow-up on Kaye Scholer, whose bonus memo we posted back in November. From a source at the firm: Just found out that despite the memo sent to associates last year, Kaye Scholer has decided...
View ArticleAssociate Bonus Watch: DLA Piper
Today brings us bonus and salary news from DLA Piper, the biggest of all Biglaws. Back in November, the firm was crowned by the National Law Journal as the nation’s largest law firm (with a whopping...
View ArticleAssociate Bonus Watch: Getting to the Bottom of the Cadwalader Mystery
We’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time and energy trying to get to the bottom of the bonus situation at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. We’ve heard all sorts of conflicting rumors, but we think...
View ArticleAssociate Bonus Watch: Dechert Docks Associates for Dilatory Billables
How can law firm administrators get associates to enter their time on time? Here’s one idea: link time entry to those beloved bonuses. From a source at Dechert: Attached is an email that all the...
View ArticleAssociate Bonus Watch: Dechert Sweetens Bonus Pot By 40 Percent Over Last Year
We were surprised by the strong, almost vitriolic commenter response to our recent post about Dechert LLP. The firm announced that it was reducing bonus amounts for associates who failed to enter their...
View ArticleAssociate Bonus Watch: Winston & Strawn (DC)(And a request for info about...
We previously reported on bonuses in the New York office of Winston & Strawn. Now it’s Washington’s turn: Winston & Strawn’s DC associates recently received their bonuses. Associates received...
View ArticleAssociate Bonus Watch: Mayer Brown Announces(And penalizes associates for...
The powers-that-be at Mayer Brown have made their decisions on bonus and salary adjustments, as announced in an email last night. And it appears that they’ve taken a page from the Dechert playbook,...
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