Wake Up Call: Fried Frank Says Some to Get Cravath-Size Bonus

In today’s column, Day Pitney dropped out of Remington’s defense team in a Connecticut suit against the gunmaker related to the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre; Alec Baldwin hired a Pillsbury white collar practice co-leader to represent him as he faces lawsuits over his “Rust” shooting accident; as they battle for legal talent, elite London law firms have new appreciation for young social media “lawfluencers.”

• Leading off, Fried Frank is matching, for some, the year-end bonus scale of $15,000 to $115,000 that Cravath set for its U.S. associates last week and which was matched by three other firms. According to a ...