Wake Up Call: Baker McKenzie Associates Get Special Bonuses

In today’s column, New York-based Milberg combined with three other plaintiffs firms to form an 85-lawyer firm and expects to have 100 by the year’s second quarter; legal tech company Litera made an acquisition it says will boost its business-of-law capabilities; a London judge rejected a request for bail by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

• Leading off, when Baker McKenize became the first Big Law firm to announce its year-end bonus scale for associates in November 2020, it said it would also match any increases in the market. Now, the firm is making good on that vow with special bonuses ranging ...