The news cycle on the latest resetting of the market on Big Law associate salaries has settled down a bit, but there’s still a lot happening. Firms could be using this time to decide whether they’ll increase starting salaries (not necessarily to “match,” but to implement some form of increase) as a result of the market reset. In fact, some firms have told us they’ll be weighing that very question this summer—deciding whether to get into, as one firm leader phrased it, “striking range.”

Of course, there are other ways to compete. Law firms offer more than salaries. Brenda Sapino Jeffreys recently reported for Texas Lawyer: Lured by lower taxes, lateral move opportunities at Am Law 100 firms and a robust economy—and sometimes personal reasons—younger lawyers are leaving jobs at Big Law firms on the coasts and flocking to firms in Texas.

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