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Baker McKenzie has been named as the world’s leading law firm brand for the 12th consecutive year in the latest Thomson Reuters Global Elite Law Firm Brand Index. In the 2022 index, Baker McKenzie scored more than double the points of the Firm’s nearest competitor, receiving an overall score of 100, which is 56 points
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Baker McKenzie has matched the big lift in associate salaries by adding $10,000 to the $20,000 paid to lawyers in the one-year to eight-year experience level. The lift follows the ongoing rise in biglaw associate pay levels, pushing the payments to their highest level. The Baker McKenzie move is backdated to January 1. First year
The war for legal talent continues unabated as two biglaw UK firms have announced increases in their payments to newly-qualified lawyers, showing that the surge in law profession payments has hardly abated. The influence of US biglaw firms’ salary levels sent the London and other UK law firms into a major, upward spiral, which commenced
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Sexual harassment claims against Microsoft have seen Arent Fox appointed to conduct a review
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The salaries may be eye-popping and the addition to their CVs prestigious, but for midnight-oil burning junior lawyers working at Biglaw firms the deal is largely a ‘Faustian pact’, as lawyers continue to leave elite law firms despite the money and prestige . . but the deals and work continues to flow. UK legal services
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As biglaw firms move increasingly away from the lockstep compensation system, the ongoing lateral law firm movements between them continues with one of the latest, high profile hires being Cravath Swaine & Moore partner Jennifer Conway who has moved to Davis, Polk & Wardwell. We recently reported about the lockstep compensation system being on its
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As equity partners’ incomes increase rapidly, bonuses for associates have also increased but not to nearly the same extent as the take-home earnings of the partners, according to the inflation-adjusted statistics. Partner profits have increased by 85 per cent over the past 10 years, according to reports, but associate salaries have increased by just 44
Big Bonuses For Law Firm Associates – But Junior Associates Are Actually Making Less Read More »
Despite the bonus season producing some record bonuses, reports from Kirkland & Ellis, one of the biggest of the big money bonus payers previously, have been somewhat disappointing. Reports from legal media, including AbovetheLaw, show that despite the firm’s massive revenues, amount last year to 4.83 billion, the bonuses paid were lower than most associates
The Biglaw special bonuses mean big money for associates
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