1243 ABA Journal Lawyer Pay articles.
Federal judges are resigning in record numbers, often lured by higher paying jobs in the private sector.
Federal trial-level judges make $165,200 a year, about $5,000 more than new lawyers…
Sep 24, 2007 2:09 PM CDT
The job market is tough for many recent law grads, who are pointing their fingers at law schools for failing to warn them about their dim prospects.
Top pay for…
Sep 24, 2007 11:04 AM CDT
Sullivan & Cromwell hopes to hold on to senior associates with a plan to pay supplemental bonuses tied to the law firm’s financial performance.
One partner told the Sep 20, 2007 10:41 AM CDT
In-house lawyers are taking home bigger paychecks and bigger bonuses, according to a 2007 survey by legal consulting firm Altman Weil. But bigger still are the stock options some receive.
…Sep 19, 2007 6:20 PM CDT
Another Atlanta-based law firm has jumped aboard the associate-salary-increase bandwagon.
Kilpatrick Stockton has agreed to raise first-year pay to $145,000 as of Jan. 1, 2008, in accord with the latest…
Sep 14, 2007 9:56 PM CDT
Young attorneys working as assistant prosecutors and public defenders in South Florida make only about $40,000 annually when they first start work. So, within five years, most have moved on…
Sep 11, 2007 7:01 PM CDT
While they’re not at the absolute top of the associate salary scale, a number of law firms in New Jersey are nonetheless raising starting pay for first-years significantly.
Although some…
Sep 10, 2007 10:52 PM CDT
The top lawyer for Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr charged up to $850 an hour for his work representing Broadcom Corp. in a patent dispute with a rival semiconductor…
Sep 10, 2007 2:11 PM CDT
In the last decade or two, requiring law firm partners to retire at a certain age has become a common practice. But now the tide seems to be turning on…
Sep 5, 2007 10:57 PM CDT
A $9 million pay dispute between Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and a former partner may soon be scheduled for trial.
Douglas Rosenthal contends Sonnenschein owes him the money for big…
Sep 5, 2007 12:20 PM CDT
A Florida lawyer whose job as Broward Sheriff made him one of the most powerful political figures in the Miami area has resigned and reportedly plans to plead guilty to…
Sep 4, 2007 4:27 PM CDT
Third-year associates working at the 200 largest law firms take home median pay of $200,000, but a lot of them need the cash to help pay off large student loans.
…Aug 30, 2007 10:38 AM CDT
A slowing international mergers and acquisitions market is expected to trim the phenomenal profits recently being made by major London-based law firms.
All five of the city’s so-called Magic Circle…
Aug 27, 2007 10:47 PM CDT
A handful of big law firms keep partner pay a secret in an effort to keep a lid on lawyer jealousy and reduce rancor.
Cesar Alvarez, head of Greenberg Traurig,…
Aug 23, 2007 12:43 PM CDT
Two more Texas firms have joined the move to raise starting pay for first-year associate attorneys to a top-of-the-market $160,000.
They are: Dallas-based Gardere Wynne Sewell, which has 282 lawyers,…
Aug 22, 2007 9:19 PM CDT
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