Davis Polk & Wardwell and Weil Gotshal & Manges have matched the year-end bonuses announced by Big Law competitors, adding on to special fall bonuses that both firms awarded to associates earlier this year on a scale Davis Polk originated.
The announcement means that the most senior associates at both firms may pocket up to $140,000 of bonuses in a busy 2020.
Davis Polk’s year-end bonuses were announced in a memo from the firm’s senior leadership team obtained by Bloomberg Law.
“It was important to the partnership not only to acknowledge the exceptional commitment to our Firm, our clients and ...