Even after the move by Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison to adopt a closed compensation system, Big Law is not moving en masse toward blocking off all internal access to partner pay data, industry consultants say.
But law firms with “open” systems have changed the way they share pay data internally over the years, some consultants say, by not pushing it to partners as readily or as freely as they once did. Some firms with “partially” open systems also have made it more difficult to see full pay or performance data, moving away from a less transparent model.