Wake Up Call: Weil’s Covid Bonuses Tilt To Big Law’s Top Billers

In today’s column, K&L Gates and Orrick joined the trend of firms of reversing Covid-19 crisis pay cuts; a coronavirus outbreak forced Squire Patton Boggs associates in England to ask for deal help from a rival firm, a report says; half a dozen law firms are advising in TV-station owner E.W. Scripps Company’s $2.65 billion deal to buy national broadcast network ION Media Networks Inc.; and the District of Columbia became the fifth jurisdiction to allow law school grads to skip the bar exam during the pandemic.

• Leading off, Weil, Gotshal & Manges is the latest big firm to wade ...