Biglaw Associate Salaries and Cost of Living: An Imperfect Correlation
With Biglaw offices reopening and office attendance soon to be expected at most firms (at least for part of the week), many associates are contemplating their post-pandemic Biglaw futures and considering their options. It still remains to be seen whether the exodus from large, high-cost cities during the pandemic will end up being a momentary […]
Biglaw Partners: Are You Capturing A Fair Share Of Your Revenue?
If you are a Biglaw partner, you may have heard this compensation rule of thumb: you should be taking home a third of the revenue you generate for the firm. The 33% rule has the advantage of being simple, and it makes for a reasonable starting point. But to really know whether you are capturing […]
Six Ways to Make Shaq Money as a Lawyer
One of the most frequently asked questions from our candidates is whether they are paid fairly and not below my peers in the space. That’s something even the great Shaq O’Neal had to face. For most Am Law 200 associates, the answer is easy to find given the information readily available about lockstep compensation and […]
5 Ways To Increase Your BigLaw Salary
If you stood outside the AT&T Center on June 15th at 9:10 p.m. local time, you would have witnessed a steady stream of crestfallen Miami Heat fans bemoaning the performance of anyone other than Lebron James. Ask any of those fans if they thought Chris Bosh was worth a max contract in the off-season and […]