The game of follow-the-leader on associate salaries remains extremely popular among New York law firms. Pay hikes from a firm like Cravath, Swaine & Moore typically provoke a response from the city's other leading firms, and this year is no different. Salaries for entry-level lawyers at some of New York's elite firms started at around $100,000 in January. By midsummer, they crept up to about $104,000. And the firms continue to try to outdo one another.
December 13, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The game of follow-the-leader on associate salaries remains extremely popular among New York law firms. Pay hikes from a firm like Cravath, Swaine & Moore typically provoke a response from the city’s other leading firms, and this year is no different.
After Cravath bumped first-year associate pay to $110,000 in late September, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and Debevoise & Plimpton quickly matched the rate.
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