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

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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 per […]

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Vinson & Elkins Join The Biglaw Bonus Ranks – Again

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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 its

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UK Law Firms ‘Missing a Trick’ By Moving Away From Moves To Recruit New Zealand and Australian Lawyers

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The traditional move for many Australian and New Zealand lawyers is to gain experience at some of the large UK law firms.  But Brexit, Covid and other factors have altered the law recruitment rules it seems.  However, leading law recruiter Nick Robbins thinks the UK firms are missing a trick . .Nick Robbins* – In

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Is The GRE About To Replace The Dominance of the LSAT? Maybe.

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The ABA has voted in favor of letting law schools accept Graduate Record Examination scores from applicants in place of Law School Admission Test LSAT) scores. The Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar made the decision, without requiring approval from anone one else according to Bill Adams, ABA managing

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13 Ways Can You Hang On To Your Law Firm Associates In A White Hot Market?

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A recent article in the National Law Journal had a seasoned law firm marketer asked how to retain associates when the market is so hot.Stefanie M. Marrone, a legal marketer who has worked with law firms for over 20 years was writing about the difficulties law firms are having hanging onto law firm associates in

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The Big Law Bonus Season for Associates Sees Further Lift In Big Law Salary Scale

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The US Big Law firms breaching the $200,000 salary scale for associates has been the subject of a new Big Law salary scale survey in an AboveTheLaw report that follows the $200k limit breached by Millbank in June 2021.Millbank fired the first shot in the associate salary scale war as we have reported and with

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