Wake Up Call: Bracewell Matches Cravath Scale for Associate Pay

In today’s column, Kramer Levin launched a congressional investigations practice headed by the House’s former chief impeachment counsel; Barnes & Thornburg hired a six-lawyer life sciences group to open offices in New Jersey and Philadelphia; and Jones Day is launching a fintech accelerator program.

• Leading off, more than six months after Cravath Swaine & Moore set 2022’s Big Law standard for associate pay, Houston-based Bracewell is reportedly matching it. (Above The Law)
• Kramer Levin said it’s launching a congressional investigations practice in New York and Washington led by partner and litigation chair Barry H. Berke, who was ...