Wake Up Call: Schulte Roth Bonuses Range Up to $185,000

In today’s column, Boies Schiller got grins but Arnold & Porter and Sidley Austin got groans from some associates for their year-end bonus memos, reports say; in this year of nationwide protests over police killings of Black men, law firms have seen their diversity efforts become essential to their business; sometimes great lawyers need help to learn how to sell themselves.

• Leading off, Schulte Roth & Zabel and Boies Schiller Flexner had good bonus news for associates yesterday. Schulte said it will match the two-part Cravath scale, which ranges up to $140,000 for senior associates, depending on seniority. It also ...