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Former Employee, more than 5 years Organization with good growth prospects 31 Jan 2022 – Technical Manager in Gurgaon, HaryanaRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness Outlook Pros Good work life balance Good leadership Decent remuneration Good benefits and perks Open and transparent culture Cons Limited choice on kind of work available Love it 17 Jan 2022 – Senior Associate in Beijing, BeijingRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness […]

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UK Law Firm Salaries Continue Upwards With Two More Firms Lifting NQs Salaries

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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The Sanity-Defying Faustian Pact Struck By Biglaw Junior Lawyers

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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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Biglaw Lateral Moves Continue As Cravath’s Lose Senior Lawyer

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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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Big Bonuses For Law Firm Associates – But Junior Associates Are Actually Making Less

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

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Biglaw bonuses at Kirkland & Ellis Disappoint

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

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