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2019 BIG LAW BONUSES ANNOUNCED

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/biglaw-bonus-season-b...
Irradiated cream resort coffee pot
  11/07/19
Same as last year *breathes a sigh of relief*
adventurous fanboi
  11/07/19
everything goes up in cost except lawyer salaries
dun diverse office rigor
  11/07/19
*associate
adventurous fanboi
  11/07/19
actually not when you factor in that the firms didn't do sum...
Irradiated cream resort coffee pot
  11/07/19
The sigh of relief is that they didn't go up
adventurous fanboi
  11/07/19
Lol you should want the associates to stay happy so they sta...
Aquamarine meetinghouse
  11/08/19
I don't work at Cravath etc. We will match and they will be ...
adventurous fanboi
  11/08/19
What is the current salary structure by year?
shaky domesticated gas station
  11/07/19
Class of 2018 — $190,000 Class of 2017 — $200,0...
Sinister razzle temple
  11/08/19
...
dun diverse office rigor
  11/07/19
Lmfao
fragrant den
  11/07/19
...
Multi-colored pink halford
  11/07/19
...
pearl impertinent place of business spot
  11/07/19
This guy has $400 in a Robinhood account that says you're wr...
Boyish dark home
  11/07/19
...
ruby site depressive
  11/08/19
As Associate General Counsel at a Fortune 500 company, assoc...
Big puce locus
  11/07/19
But my 1.1 MM salary is okay, right?
adventurous fanboi
  11/07/19
Yes
Ungodly galvanic parlour dingle berry
  11/07/19
rofl @ these small-dicked inhouse faggots w chips on their s...
dun diverse office rigor
  11/07/19
(MAF guy)
Irradiated cream resort coffee pot
  11/07/19
Lol at saying ppl cant "cut it" kowtowing to menta...
crimson tanning salon juggernaut
  11/08/19
Not breaking out sig pages is the behavior of a mentally ill...
carmine associate
  11/08/19
Just a bad attorney lol, but same page.
crimson tanning salon juggernaut
  11/12/19
Why? It has no impact on rates. Even partner comp has no i...
Aquamarine meetinghouse
  11/08/19
This seems wrong
Insane histrionic telephone
  11/08/19
Yes because rates went down in 2008-2011 when tons of associ...
Aquamarine meetinghouse
  11/08/19
...
dun diverse office rigor
  11/08/19
...
bearded ivory boiling water plaza
  11/08/19
Rates go up every year* *might cause firm to implode cata...
Buff idea he suggested
  11/08/19
...
charismatic patrolman
  11/08/19
As Nutella already pointed out, partner rates have gone up e...
bearded ivory boiling water plaza
  11/08/19
cr. but hey, it makes small-dicked in-house fags w chips on ...
dun diverse office rigor
  11/08/19
Hours are going down.
Buff idea he suggested
  11/08/19
when you stopped paying for junior associates, you ensured t...
Sinister razzle temple
  11/08/19
LJL. What kind of dumbass is still wasting his life in bigla...
soul-stirring hominid public bath
  11/07/19
...
bearded ivory boiling water plaza
  11/07/19
Just cop $450k, 11-3, 4 day/week WFH, 90 IQ in-house
Big puce locus
  11/07/19
Yeah, but what's the use of the extra 25% (or whatever) you ...
soul-stirring hominid public bath
  11/07/19
The idea is to quit at some point in the future and have cas...
bearded ivory boiling water plaza
  11/07/19
PROTIP: You or your wife will spend it all.
soul-stirring hominid public bath
  11/07/19
the "dumbass" move that is "pathetic and tort...
Sinister razzle temple
  11/08/19
Sup?
adventurous fanboi
  11/07/19
The only people I know who are still in BigLaw were people w...
soul-stirring hominid public bath
  11/07/19
What about us misanthropes?
adventurous fanboi
  11/07/19
(insecure bro who is in denial)
soul-stirring hominid public bath
  11/08/19
yeah you're definitely describing yourself there
ruby site depressive
  11/08/19
...
hairraiser bisexual center mediation
  11/07/19
Damn. Cant believe I'm missing out on that sweet 100 Gs
Insane histrionic telephone
  11/07/19
take this shit to TLS
Smoky Legend Pit
  11/07/19
MILBANK TUNA HENTAI
pearl impertinent place of business spot
  11/07/19
The blooding season begins. Come, ye, sit around the fire an...
Ungodly galvanic parlour dingle berry
  11/07/19
...
arousing saffron bawdyhouse
  11/08/19
"On the other hand, I think the angered associates have...
Jet mewling scourge upon the earth
  11/08/19
Cravath or Simpson will come over the top and put milbank in...
Jade racy main people toaster
  11/08/19
rates are fucking absurd. 6th and 7th years are charging wh...
Sinister razzle temple
  11/08/19
my undiscounted rate is 755
pearl impertinent place of business spot
  11/08/19
Most of your hours are probably getting written off
Hideous Sanctuary
  11/08/19
cr. also, very very few to practically no clients are simply...
Apoplectic parlor tattoo
  11/08/19
Rates increase 85% in the space of a decade. In-house cou...
Jade racy main people toaster
  11/08/19
Whistling past the graveyard.
Buff idea he suggested
  11/08/19
Let's hope not
adventurous fanboi
  11/08/19
No movement
cocky milk abode
  11/11/19
not a biglawmo. what percentage of associates actually get t...
Apoplectic parlor tattoo
  11/08/19
Depends on how good of a firm. At good big law firms you get...
Hideous Sanctuary
  11/08/19
as poster said, depends on firm, but at most BIGLAW firms (a...
Irradiated cream resort coffee pot
  11/08/19
if you don't hit your hours, do many places completely screw...
Provocative forum voyeur
  11/08/19
no. you are either at a firm where you need hours, no excep...
Irradiated cream resort coffee pot
  11/11/19
tbf, most biglaw firms dont formally state hours requirement...
dun diverse office rigor
  11/11/19
As a result, the market as a whole experienced healthy avera...
Buff idea he suggested
  11/08/19
this isn't news. The V100 is splitting in half. The top 50...
Irradiated cream resort coffee pot
  11/08/19
did you highlight this report, :D
Apoplectic parlor tattoo
  11/08/19
"compensation increases appear – at least at firs...
Buff idea he suggested
  11/11/19
Looking at these makes me depressed I'm not in big law as it...
exciting area
  11/08/19
The bonus check is actually bigger than that because they un...
Provocative forum voyeur
  11/08/19
CRAVATH
silver cowardly principal's office
  11/11/19
FRAT WHITE
pearl impertinent place of business spot
  11/11/19
120
Hideous Sanctuary
  11/11/19
Has the market been SHATTERED? Please give TOTAL COMP for NO...
Buff idea he suggested
  11/11/19
status quo from Cravath; which means all in comp is at best ...
Ungodly galvanic parlour dingle berry
  11/11/19
ty
Buff idea he suggested
  11/12/19
Class of 2019 — $190,000 + $15,000 [prorated so really...
silver cowardly principal's office
  11/12/19
Your salaries are off by a year. You can pretty much ignore ...
Snowy brunch
  11/12/19
Salaries for July 1-June 30 or whenever Cravath's fiscal yea...
silver cowardly principal's office
  11/12/19
Someone in Class of 2018 who started in October 2018 does no...
Snowy brunch
  11/12/19
lol I fucked up because I'm thinking of billing year tyft
silver cowardly principal's office
  11/12/19
Looks like 190 can barely be sustained if bonuses are tiny e...
Buff idea he suggested
  11/12/19
Getting paid 300k as a 28 year old monkey scribe comma chase...
Mustard Famous Landscape Painting Nowag
  11/12/19
This is a tired debate at this point here but, as has been p...
Ungodly galvanic parlour dingle berry
  11/12/19
Lol wtf, it’s the opposite. Biglaw associates more th...
Aquamarine meetinghouse
  11/12/19


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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:22 PM
Author: Irradiated cream resort coffee pot

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/biglaw-bonus-season-begins-with-announcement-from-milbank

not that it impacts anyone here in xo2019 right

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087193)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:23 PM
Author: adventurous fanboi

Same as last year

*breathes a sigh of relief*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087199)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 9:06 PM
Author: dun diverse office rigor

everything goes up in cost except lawyer salaries

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087408)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 11:22 PM
Author: adventurous fanboi

*associate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39088066)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 9:57 PM
Author: Irradiated cream resort coffee pot

actually not when you factor in that the firms didn't do summer bonuses......

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087615)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 11:22 PM
Author: adventurous fanboi

The sigh of relief is that they didn't go up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39088063)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 9:16 AM
Author: Aquamarine meetinghouse

Lol you should want the associates to stay happy so they stay and make your life easier. The shitty ones are getting pushed out anyway.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39088868)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 2:10 PM
Author: adventurous fanboi

I don't work at Cravath etc. We will match and they will be glad. 430k goes a long way in Texas.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39090122)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:33 PM
Author: shaky domesticated gas station

What is the current salary structure by year?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087236)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 12:48 PM
Author: Sinister razzle temple

Class of 2018 — $190,000

Class of 2017 — $200,000

Class of 2016 — $220,000

Class of 2015 — $255,000

Class of 2014 — $280,000

Class of 2013 — $305,000

Class of 2012 — $325,000

Class of 2011 — $340,000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39089733)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:35 PM
Author: dun diverse office rigor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087244)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:40 PM
Author: fragrant den

Lmfao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087275)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:43 PM
Author: Multi-colored pink halford



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087300)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:51 PM
Author: pearl impertinent place of business spot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087343)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 9:06 PM
Author: Boyish dark home

This guy has $400 in a Robinhood account that says you're wrong.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087412)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 9:41 AM
Author: ruby site depressive



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39088950)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:38 PM
Author: Big puce locus

As Associate General Counsel at a Fortune 500 company, associate bonuses make me so angry.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087260)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:48 PM
Author: adventurous fanboi

But my 1.1 MM salary is okay, right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087328)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 9:06 PM
Author: Ungodly galvanic parlour dingle berry

Yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087413)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:55 PM
Author: dun diverse office rigor

rofl @ these small-dicked inhouse faggots w chips on their shoulders bc they couldn't cut it in biglaw. it's a disgrace that anyone in biglaw has to take any of these fags to dinner ever.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087359)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 9:58 PM
Author: Irradiated cream resort coffee pot

(MAF guy)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087621)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 9:39 AM
Author: crimson tanning salon juggernaut

Lol at saying ppl cant "cut it" kowtowing to mentally ill partners at 3am on a Saturday making sure there are two spaces after the periods in a doc and adding a page break before the sig page.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39088941)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 12:52 PM
Author: carmine associate

Not breaking out sig pages is the behavior of a mentally ill person

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39089751)



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Date: November 12th, 2019 2:38 PM
Author: crimson tanning salon juggernaut

Just a bad attorney lol, but same page.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39107526)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 9:11 AM
Author: Aquamarine meetinghouse

Why? It has no impact on rates. Even partner comp has no impact on rates. The rates just go up every year regardless.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39088864)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 9:23 AM
Author: Insane histrionic telephone

This seems wrong

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39088886)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 11:45 AM
Author: Aquamarine meetinghouse

Yes because rates went down in 2008-2011 when tons of associates got laid off and those who didn’t got no bonuses....

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39089496)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 12:37 PM
Author: dun diverse office rigor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39089686)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 12:49 PM
Author: bearded ivory boiling water plaza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39089736)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 4:09 PM
Author: Buff idea he suggested

Rates go up every year*

*might cause firm to implode catastrophically

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39090584)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 4:06 PM
Author: charismatic patrolman



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39090566)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 12:51 PM
Author: bearded ivory boiling water plaza

As Nutella already pointed out, partner rates have gone up every single year regardless of associate salaries and/or bonuses.

Savings obtained from associate salaried remaining the same for 10 years were never passed onto your company.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39089750)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 12:53 PM
Author: dun diverse office rigor

cr. but hey, it makes small-dicked in-house fags w chips on their shoulders bc they couldnt cut it in biglaw happy that biglaw associates get the shaft!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39089757)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 4:10 PM
Author: Buff idea he suggested
Subject: Hours are going down.

Looking more closely at changing levels of productivity, Figure 8 shows average billable hours worked

per lawyer for all categories of lawyers across the market. While the number of worked hours has been

reasonably stable in recent years, it is important to note that, compared to average billable hours in the

pre-recession years (i.e., prior to 2008), there remains a significant difference. By way of illustration, in

2007, the billable hours worked averaged 134 per month. Through 2018, the average is now 122 per

month, or a difference of 144 hours per year from the 2007 level. To see the economic impact of this

reduction in productivity, one need only multiply this annual difference by the average worked rate in 2018

of $489 per hour, to see that the decreased productivity over the last decade cost firms some $70,416 per

lawyer per year in 2018. For a firm of 200 lawyers, that translates to a total cost of $14.1 million; for a firm of

400 to $28.2 million; and for a firm of 600 to $42.3 million.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39090590)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 1:06 PM
Author: Sinister razzle temple

when you stopped paying for junior associates, you ensured that senior associates and junior partners had to do more work. actions have consequences.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39089805)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:40 PM
Author: soul-stirring hominid public bath

LJL. What kind of dumbass is still wasting his life in biglaw?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087281)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:46 PM
Author: bearded ivory boiling water plaza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087320)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:48 PM
Author: Big puce locus

Just cop $450k, 11-3, 4 day/week WFH, 90 IQ in-house

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087326)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:50 PM
Author: soul-stirring hominid public bath

Yeah, but what's the use of the extra 25% (or whatever) you make when your life is literally pathetic and torturous.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087337)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:55 PM
Author: bearded ivory boiling water plaza

The idea is to quit at some point in the future and have cash saved up when I do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087360)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:58 PM
Author: soul-stirring hominid public bath

PROTIP: You or your wife will spend it all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087367)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 6:37 PM
Author: Sinister razzle temple

the "dumbass" move that is "pathetic and torturous" is the mythical unicorn in house job or midlaw job

you're doing the same work for 1/3 the pay. and if you're in house, you're a cost center that will be first to go if the recession hits.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39091214)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:48 PM
Author: adventurous fanboi

Sup?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087330)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 9:09 PM
Author: soul-stirring hominid public bath

The only people I know who are still in BigLaw were people who grew up proles and have major insecurity issues.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087423)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 11:24 PM
Author: adventurous fanboi

What about us misanthropes?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39088072)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 6:46 PM
Author: soul-stirring hominid public bath

(insecure bro who is in denial)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39091248)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 4:02 PM
Author: ruby site depressive

yeah you're definitely describing yourself there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39090533)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:48 PM
Author: hairraiser bisexual center mediation



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087332)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:47 PM
Author: Insane histrionic telephone

Damn. Cant believe I'm missing out on that sweet 100 Gs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087323)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:48 PM
Author: Smoky Legend Pit

take this shit to TLS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087329)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 8:51 PM
Author: pearl impertinent place of business spot

MILBANK TUNA HENTAI

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087340)



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Date: November 7th, 2019 9:08 PM
Author: Ungodly galvanic parlour dingle berry

The blooding season begins. Come, ye, sit around the fire and hear these stories of glam baubles bought and sold, the smiling money times filling our souls as we laugh and cheer and die. Glory to the Firm. Glory to the Law.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39087420)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 8:40 AM
Author: arousing saffron bawdyhouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39088827)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 12:50 PM
Author: Jet mewling scourge upon the earth

"On the other hand, I think the angered associates have the right of the argument,” Mystal writes. “Why should the firms be hoarding profits in preparation for the recession, instead of sharing more of those profits with the employees, some of whom will be laid off next recession anyway?”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39089743)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 1:02 PM
Author: Jade racy main people toaster

Cravath or Simpson will come over the top and put milbank in its place. Profits at every big firm are up again for the nth year in a row. Billing rates are up again at every big firm for the nth year in a row. Hours are the same. And last year they paid summer bonuses.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39089786)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 1:05 PM
Author: Sinister razzle temple

rates are fucking absurd. 6th and 7th years are charging what only the top rainmakers used to charge barely a decade ago

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39089801)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 1:20 PM
Author: pearl impertinent place of business spot

my undiscounted rate is 755

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39089869)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 1:21 PM
Author: Hideous Sanctuary

Most of your hours are probably getting written off

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39089875)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 1:24 PM
Author: Apoplectic parlor tattoo

cr. also, very very few to practically no clients are simply paying for attorney time at standard rates without any discount

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39089892)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 2:19 PM
Author: Jade racy main people toaster

Rates increase 85% in the space of a decade.

In-house counsel calls and gets 12% discount for new matter. Proudly reports the savings to the C suite.

Rates go up 15% next year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39090151)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 4:01 PM
Author: Buff idea he suggested

Whistling past the graveyard.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39090529)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 6:30 PM
Author: adventurous fanboi

Let's hope not

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39091170)



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Date: November 11th, 2019 5:39 PM
Author: cocky milk abode

No movement

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39103239)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 3:40 PM
Author: Apoplectic parlor tattoo

not a biglawmo. what percentage of associates actually get the bonus? is it strictly tied to hours or is there any discretionary component? obviously the big rainmaker can do whatever he wants

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39090432)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 3:57 PM
Author: Hideous Sanctuary

Depends on how good of a firm. At good big law firms you get full bonus no questions asked, no hours minimum. At Reed Smith it's a different story

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39090508)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 4:39 PM
Author: Irradiated cream resort coffee pot

as poster said, depends on firm, but at most BIGLAW firms (at least V50 and higher) you will get a bonus as long as you hit your hours and even sometimes if you don't.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39090730)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 10:41 PM
Author: Provocative forum voyeur

if you don't hit your hours, do many places completely screw you, or do they at least pro-rate (ok, your 100 hours short, so let's take 20% off the bonus you would otherwise get)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39092082)



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Date: November 11th, 2019 11:04 PM
Author: Irradiated cream resort coffee pot

no. you are either at a firm where you need hours, no exceptions or at one that doesn't care and it's subjective but not at all based on hours and not prorated.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39104899)



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Date: November 11th, 2019 5:26 PM
Author: dun diverse office rigor

tbf, most biglaw firms dont formally state hours requirements despite what is well understood/expected. they have more CYA that way, plus hours requirements cause people not to go over

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39103180)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 4:04 PM
Author: Buff idea he suggested

As a result, the market as a whole experienced healthy average revenue growth of 5.5 percent for the year.

On the negative side, while the overall results described above were positive, it must be noted that they were

driven significantly by Am Law 100 firms (and, indeed, within that grouping, by Am Law 50 firms), as well as by

some niche firms in the Midsize group. Performance by other firms – including particularly firms in the Am Law

Second 100 and some firms in the Am Law 100 and Midsize groups – were well below the market averages.

This continues the strong trend toward market segmentation that we saw in 2017 and raises the interesting

question of why different parts of the market are performing in strikingly different ways.

Apart from segmentation, there were other financial indicators that were somewhat surprising given the

relative stagnation in the market over the past several years. One of the most dramatic was a second round

of associate compensation increases that drove associate salaries and bonuses to record levels and that will

have a serious impact on the bottom lines of many firms in the coming year. Considering that productivity has

been essentially flat to declining in almost every year since the Great Recession, such compensation increases

appear – at least at first blush – to be counterintuitive.

A similar observation could be made about the aggressive increase in worked rates seen in 2018. Given the

tepid growth in demand for law firm services, the increased willingness of clients to move business to lower

cost firms or alternative service providers, and the continuing client push back on rate increases (as reflected

in declining realization rates), it is counterintuitive that firms would propose aggressive rate increases or that

clients would accept them. But that appears to be what happened.

http://www.managingpartnerforum.org/tasks/sites/mpf/assets/image/MPF%20FEATURED%20WHITE%20PAPER%20-%202019%20State%20of%20Legal%20Market%20-%20GeorgetownLaw-ThomsonReuters%20-%202-8-19.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39090547)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 4:40 PM
Author: Irradiated cream resort coffee pot

this isn't news. The V100 is splitting in half. The top 50 or 60 or so are far more profitable than the rest.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39090734)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 6:44 PM
Author: Apoplectic parlor tattoo

did you highlight this report, :D

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39091240)



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Date: November 11th, 2019 7:21 PM
Author: Buff idea he suggested

"compensation increases appear – at least at first blush – to be counterintuitive."

LOL @ GC

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39103644)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 8:20 PM
Author: exciting area

Looking at these makes me depressed I'm not in big law as it would be sick as hell to get a check for $100,000.

Then I remember that after taxes, it'd be like $50,000, which wouldn't even cover preschool for 2 of my kids.

Conversely, in flyover, my shitty in-house bonus would pay for preschool for 12 kids...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39091587)



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Date: November 8th, 2019 10:40 PM
Author: Provocative forum voyeur

The bonus check is actually bigger than that because they under-withhold, so instead you're getting like $70 and making huge estimated tax payments every quarter for the next year

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39092080)



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Date: November 11th, 2019 5:22 PM
Author: silver cowardly principal's office
Subject: CRAVATH

CRAVATH

Class of 2019 — $15,000

Class of 2018 — $15,000

Class of 2017 — $25,000

Class of 2016 — $50,000

Class of 2015 — $65,000

Class of 2014 — $80,000

Class of 2013 — $90,000

Class of 2012 — $100,000

Class of 2011 — $100,000

https://www.law.com/2019/11/11/cravath-matches-associate-bonuses-after-early-announcement-from-milbank/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39103166)



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Date: November 11th, 2019 5:28 PM
Author: pearl impertinent place of business spot

FRAT WHITE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39103191)



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Date: November 11th, 2019 7:20 PM
Author: Hideous Sanctuary

120

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39103637)



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Date: November 11th, 2019 7:22 PM
Author: Buff idea he suggested

Has the market been SHATTERED? Please give TOTAL COMP for NOOBS.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39103650)



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Date: November 11th, 2019 9:56 PM
Author: Ungodly galvanic parlour dingle berry

status quo from Cravath; which means all in comp is at best even with and at worst lower this year vs last for many since last year also had summer bonuses along with the scale increase mid-year

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39104537)



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Date: November 12th, 2019 2:46 AM
Author: Buff idea he suggested

ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39105476)



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Date: November 12th, 2019 2:29 PM
Author: silver cowardly principal's office

Class of 2019 — $190,000 + $15,000 [prorated so really like $3,000] = $205,000

Class of 2018 — $190,000 + $15,000 = $205,000

Class of 2017 — $200,000 + $25,000 = $245,000

Class of 2016 — $220,000 + $50,000 = $270,000

Class of 2015 — $255,000 + $65,000 = $315,000

Class of 2014 — $280,000 + $80,000 = $360,000

Class of 2013 — $305,000 + $90,000 = $395,000

Class of 2012 — $325,000 + $100,000 = $425,000

Class of 2011 — $340,000 + $100,000 = $440,000

Nice thing about the recession was a correction to spread out the bonuses, they used to be so compressed, but firms recognize that value of 4th years is so much greater and salaries start to widen from there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39107469)



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Date: November 12th, 2019 2:32 PM
Author: Snowy brunch

Your salaries are off by a year. You can pretty much ignore Class of 2019, they work for like 3 months of the year only. Start with $190k for Class of 2018.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39107483)



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Date: November 12th, 2019 2:33 PM
Author: silver cowardly principal's office

Salaries for July 1-June 30 or whenever Cravath's fiscal year starts for raises idk

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39107492)



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Date: November 12th, 2019 2:41 PM
Author: Snowy brunch

Someone in Class of 2018 who started in October 2018 does not start getting a $200k salary on January 1, 2019. Are you a paralegal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39107539)



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Date: November 12th, 2019 2:43 PM
Author: silver cowardly principal's office

lol I fucked up because I'm thinking of billing year tyft

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39107550)



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Date: November 12th, 2019 2:34 PM
Author: Buff idea he suggested

Looks like 190 can barely be sustained if bonuses are tiny even with 130 straight months of job growth jfc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39107498)



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Date: November 12th, 2019 2:39 PM
Author: Mustard Famous Landscape Painting Nowag

Getting paid 300k as a 28 year old monkey scribe comma chaser is pretty absurd. I felt weird about it when it was me and I was making 200k. Definitely earn my 300k inhouse way more honestly (though I also feel overpaid here), and the hours are better and so are the people and the work is more interesting.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39107533)



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Date: November 12th, 2019 3:16 PM
Author: Ungodly galvanic parlour dingle berry

This is a tired debate at this point here but, as has been pointed out time and again, I doubt your 300k in-house comes with the routine expectation that you'll be e-mailed at 2 a.m. on a Saturday or that, when that e-mail comes, you'll be responsive to it either at that time or, worst case, by early Saturday morning and poised to work throughout the weekend in order to deliver the expected work product by COB Sunday. Young attorneys in biglaw are being paid for availability, time, and work ethic in relationship to high dollar value matters and rapid, sometimes capricious demands and, in that sense, they are earning their pay honestly, even if some of their work does involve "chasing commas." As you note, one of the benefits of moving in-house is to rid yourself of that environment.

Whether there should be a macro shift to generally lower pay scales and/or a different work culture across the industry is a separate topic and one that won't be raised, if ever, until there's a secular change in demand for high-end legal services.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39107688)



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Date: November 12th, 2019 4:11 PM
Author: Aquamarine meetinghouse

Lol wtf, it’s the opposite. Biglaw associates more than earn their pay.

Lol at all you penny pinching in house lawyers suddenly saying biglaw associates are overpaid and supposedly hurting your company’s bottom line. You know what hurts your company’s bottom line? Paying you $300k to do in house work that is 90% made up busywork. The other 10% of “sophisticated” work is outsourced to biglaw.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4378134&forum_id=2#39107852)