associate compensation

Dickstein Shapiro Abandoning Lockstep

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…

Weil Gotshal is paying most of its associates on the Sullivan & Cromwell scale - $7500 for the first years…

Wachtel Lipton pays bonuses as a percentage of base salary, with some variance in percentage based on year. Two years…

First a little background: Hogan & Hartson pays associates on a two tier system, where associates can choose to receive…

2009 salaries and bonuses at Fulbright have been frozen at the 2008 level. According to tipsters in the Washington DC…