Associate bonus amounts for work done in 2009 dropped like rocks at many large Texas firms. Additionally, at some firms the factors used to determine those bonuses became more subjective.
Management for at least five large firms in Texas adopted a new system to calculate associate bonuses for 2009, changing longstanding policies of rewarding lawyers simply for meeting billable-hours targets and instead relying on more discretionary, subjective evaluations of associates.
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