Wake Up Call: Kirkland Matches Davis Polk Salary Scale

June 21, 2021, 12:26 PM UTC

In today’s column, some Big Law firms are using signing and retention bonuses as an extra competition lever, on top of salary hikes, in the hot market for talent in key practice areas; worklaw attorneys in Los Angeles are seeing a surge in demand for advice from companies reopening after Covid shutdowns; Texas-founded Vinson & Elkins still dominates the Houston market, despite the entry of several Big Law firms.

  • Leading off, the world’s biggest law firm by revenue, Kirkland & Ellis, is matching the Davis Polk scale for associate pay hikes for the first six years on the scale and ...

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