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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Supreme Court clerkships provide a coveted career that is much more than a job. It is an opportunity to serve the highest court in the land and provide you with tremendous satisfaction and financial benefits. It is also a job that is difficult to get into and even harder to keep. So why should you
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The Big law pay salary scale shows intense competition among big law firms for their attorneys with pay continuing to rise
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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* –
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,
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Jimmy Singh* – On 17 July 2020, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) released the statistics report on the average income based on occupation (and state) for income year 2017/18. The report is based upon millions of 2018 income tax returns in respect to millions individuals, and hundreds of thousands of corporations. In a nutshell,
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
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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
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A first-look at the salary for a District Attorney based on a US-wide District Attorney salary survey conducted by the BigLaw Investor team
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The virtual work environment has changed with law firm internships now differing following the pandemic-related changes with law firms offering virtual law firm internships for undergraduates and JD students. The situation with law firm internships is seeing virtual internships, often provided via an online platform called Forage, previously called InsideSherpa, which provides the virtual interns
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