Firm Summary
Proskauer Rose LLP
Formed by a 21-year-old attorney in downtown Manhattan in 1875, Proskauer Rose today employs over 725 attorneys in 13 offices across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The full-service firm excels at a wide range of corporate and litigation services, offering equal strength in complex transactions and high-stakes litigation. Its Private Investment Funds Group is widely recognized as one of the best in the country, and its labor and sports law groups are just as strong. On the litigation front, Proskauer attorneys are known for handling everything from high-profile white collar defense matters to cutting-edge IP litigation for some of the biggest companies in the world, including Hermès, the firm’s longest running client.
Firm Stats
- Firm Name
- Proskauer Rose LLP
- U.S. Lawyer Headcount
- 695
- Headcount Change Since 2016
Overall
-52
Partner
+8
- Salary Scale
- Market
- Bonus Category
- Full Match
- Hours Required
- Unspecified
- Top Feeder Schools
- Columbia Law School, NYU School of Law, Harvard Law School
- Average Lawyer Tenure at Firm (Years)
- 6.6
- Revenue Per Lawyer Change Over Five Years
- 19%
- Women Partners (as Percentage of U.S. Lawyer Headcount)
- 5%
- Women Partners (As a Percentage of U.S. Partnership)
- 15%
- Promotion Rate
- 2%
- Most Common Federal Case Types
- Labor, Civil Rights, Contract
- Most Active Federal Jurisdictions
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- Frequent Federal Litigation Clients
- The National Asian Pacific Center on Aging, National Hispanic Council on Aging, Mazon
Firm Policies
Work/Life Balance
- 18 weeks primary caregiver leave
- 4 weeks family leave
- Flex and/or reduced hours
- Sabbaticals
- Subsidized backup care/emergency dependent care
- Adoption assistance ($5K)
Benefits and Perks
- All bar expenses paid
- $10K interest-free loan to be repaid over first full year of employment
- Qualified moving expenses up to $3K
- Pro-rated stub bonus based on start date
Superstars
Yasmine Tarasewicz
Partner
A Paris-based partner and co-head of the firm’s French & EU Employment Group, Tarasewicz is recognized as one of France’s leading experts in the field of employment law. Tarasewicz focuses on employment law aspects of major reorganizations, as well as litigation matters involving wrongful dismissals, collective layoffs, and litigation against unions or works councils.
Martin Bienenstock
Partner
A partner in the firm’s New York office, Bienenstock is chair of the firm’s Business Solutions, Governance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group. With an emphasis on restructuring troubled situations, Bienenstock excels at providing multidisciplinary solutions that combine aspects of restructuring, reorganization, litigation, corporate governance, and regulatory law, including Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley.
Margaret Dale
Partner
A partner in the firm’s New York office, Dale is an experienced litigator known for handling complex business disputes in a wide variety of industries. In addition to high-profile commercial disputes, Dale also focuses on privacy and data security matters, intellectual property matters, and securities matters, as well as pro bono cases relating to women, children and veterans.
Sandra Crawshaw-Sparks
Partner
A partner in the firm’s Los Angeles and New York offices, Crawshaw-Sparks is chair of the Firm’s Entertainment, Copyright & Media Practice Group. Crawshaw-Sparks handles a wide variety of litigation, IP, and transactional matters in the entertainment industry, with an emphasis on music. Her A-list clients include Madonna, U2, and Lady Gaga.
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