CHICAGO, May 2, 2022 – Powered by LawFuel —The Managing Director’s Office of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar released today a new set of bar pass data for American Bar Association-approved law schools that provides national “ultimate” and first-time percentage pass rates based on race, ethnicity and gender.The charts, which […]
New law job website LawJob1 has reported on the major shakeup in the rankings of US law schools following a reassessment of the way the well known US News & World Report law school rankings are reported. The USN&WR rankings have long been a staple for law school rankings, however their reworking of the methodology
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The biglaw salary scale just got higher in London following another US-based law firm lifting the pay rates for newly qualified lawyers to an eye-watering $215,000. Reports from London indicate that Vinson & Elkins has joined the other Stateside law firms Gibson Dunn and Simpson Thacher in lifting salaries to £161,700 and £158,000. Covington &
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Judges’ Clerk Employment Court, Major Commercial Law Roles, Environmental Law role and more Handling deals of up to $10 billion are the largest procurement deals handled by government and major new legal positions paying large money are among the legal jobs available to New Zealand lawyers. LawFuel’s Law Jobs & News network has listed two
Law School admission in the US has long involved the LSAT, but it could become a thing of the past following announced plans made by the US Law School Admission Council this week? The answer is ‘No’, but there are certainly major changes afoot. >> Your law job here The legal education program due to
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Cravaths’ ‘wow’ factor on mid-level and senior associates’ pay levels The Big Law salary scale just took another push from big law salary payer Cravaths . . Cravaths, along with Davis Polk and Milbank are the ‘troika’, as AbovetheLaw describes them, that lead the way on the big law salary scale and – once again
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A survey from UK legal blog Roll on Friday identifies the top paying UK law firms – and the irony (perhaps) is that the top echelons of the rankings are all US-based law firms, which have lead the rush to increase associate pay levels to unprecedented levels. Top firm in the rankings with a 92
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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
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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The latest in the Biglaw bonus stakes to create waves has been Vinson & Elkins who have announced bonuses to match those offered by other biglaw firms nationally, along with supplemental bonuses to the firm’s top performers. The latest memo from the firm, reproduced by AbovetheLaw, shows the firm’s appreciation of the attorneys’ contribution to
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