US law firm Sidley Austin has raised the compensation for its newly qualified associates in London to compete with the other mainly US-based law firms boosting law firm pay levels in the London legal talent war. Their base salaries have increased from £166,500 to £175,000, an additional £8,500 or 5% hike effective July 1st. The […]
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The Paul Weiss Mega-Million Talent Raid Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing writer Of all the big-money, Big Law talent raids in recent times, it has been Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison – aka Paul Weiss – who have been paying millions to recruit legal talent in an intense talent war for top dealmaking lawyers. We
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The $20 Million Payday Deals Albert Goodwin, LawFuel contributing editor Although ‘lateral’ may mean ‘sideways’, it certainly means ‘UP’ when it comes to lawyer compensation as some of the lateral transfers now occurring among big law firms see the big law pay scale rise to $20 million or more. Heady stuff. The pressure is on
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The NQ Associate Battleground UK law firms are risking future growth prospects with their mounting pay for associates, according to a report in BloombergLaw, quoting various law firm recruiters and others on the London pay battleground that we have been reporting on for some months. The pay rises in recent months have been significant: Linklaters
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Law Firm Pay Changes Albert Goodwin, LawFuel contributor Davis Polk chair, Neil Barr, sees the next 18 months as a key period that will reshape the legal industry landscape with increased lateral hiring and changes to law firm pay models, according to a report in Bloomberg Law. Lawfuel reported on the lateral recruitment move in
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How Much Do Law Firm Partners Bank Each Year? Albert Goodwin, law firm business writer The question of what the law firm partner salary level is intrigues some and bewilders others, with compensation figures often confidential. The issue is therefore more complex and partner earnings can fluctuate not only due to economic factors, but also
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Davis Wright have provided million dollar a year profits for partners and boosted the big law pay scale rankings for the firm
Law firm pay scale shakeup in London has seen huge money paid to junior lawyers in a major shakeup on the London law scene
The career situation for Big Law Associates is as good as its ever been, with associates working shorter hours for more money. How can that be? A report from Bloomberg indicates that the short hours/big pay situation is due in large part to a reluctance by large law firms to let associates go at a
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The law firm salary war continues, according to reports from London law firms about law salary increases. Paul Hastings is leading the pack with a 5 percent raise for their newbies, bumping their pay from £164,000 to £173,000. They tweaked their pay scale a bit, changing the exchange rate from £1 to $1.31, to £1
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