Elite Biglaw Firm Is Offering Extra Special Bonuses On Top Of Regular Bonuses
This Am Law Top 10 firm is spreading the love -- with money!
Associates, did you click on this hoping for some firm to beat the Cravath bonus scale? Temper your greed — and think about your colleagues on the staff side.
Ever since Biglaw bonus season started, we’ve received a slew of emails from law firm support staff wondering what their fate may be as the Benjamins continue to rain down upon associates. After all, it takes an army for law firms this large to run, and the behind-the-scenes battalions of staff members deserve their due, too.
After an extremely successful year, despite the ongoing pandemic, one of the most prestigious firms in the country came to the conclusion that its worldwide support staff — a class defined as business services and legal services employees who don’t participate in its legal bonus scheme — deserved a little bit more during COVID times, and decided to issue special bonuses to them of $1,500, on top of any year-end bonuses they were already due to receive. (Sources tell us these bonuses can be up to 20 percent of annual salary for the highest performers.)
Congratulations to White & Case for showing their staff members some appreciation during these tough times. “I am immensely proud of the role that each of you have played in contributing to our success, and the way in which we have risen to the challenges presented by the pandemic,” writes White & Case chief operating officer Greg Dolan. Staffers at the firm are quite pleased:
It was a very pleasant surprise! And nice to know that our firm’s support for its business services employees isn’t just lip service.
Add this to the fact that we haven’t faced any layoffs or salary reductions at White & Case this year, it makes it a great place to work for lawyers and non-lawyers alike!
Staff bonuses at White & Case will be paid sometime in December. Congrats to all!
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(Flip to the next page to read the White & Case staff bonus memo in full.)
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Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.
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