Wake Up Call: Davis Polk Tops Cooley’s Special Covid Bonus Scale

In today’s column, growth of big U.K. firms’ profits per equity partner slowed sharply in their recent fiscal year; K&L Gates name partner William H. Gates Sr., father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, died at age 94; Milbank’s L.A. managing partner was confirmed to a California federal court seat; Washington, D.C., law graduates are a step closer to getting to skip the bar exam; Paul Weiss and Dentons steered Kraft Heinz’ $3.2 billion deal to sell part of its cheese business to a French multinational.

• Leading off, legal blog Above The Law is calling it the “Covid-19 bonus wars” after ...