Law Firm Advances, Bonuses, Benefits & Stipends for First-Years
| Firm | Bar Exam Reimbursements | Bar Stipend or Signing / Graduation Bonus | Salary Advance | Relocation Benefits | Stub Bonus | Payback Required? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akin Gump – DC | BarBri PMBR Exam fees |
$7,500 stipend | None | Up to $5,000 reimbursement Firm has direct billing with preferred movers |
$1,000 | |
| Akin Gump – Houston | BarBri PMBR Exam fees |
$11,000 | None | Up to $2,000 reimbursement | None | |
| Allen & Overy | Reimbursed up to $5,000 for all bar-related expenses (any bar review course(s), the bar examination fee, the MPRE exam, travel expenses incurred while taking the bar) | None | $8,000 | Up to $2,500 reimbursement for moving expenses and up to $2,500 reimbursement for broker fees | $8,750* | If they leave A&O within one year of their start date, they will repay a pro rata portion of the Repayment Amount (less any amounts by which their salary has been reduced in accordance with the Salary Advancement Letter, if any) based on the time remaining until the first anniversary of their start date. |
| Alston & Bird | BarBri (direct billing) Exam fees Hotel |
None | $7,500 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. Firm provides storage fees in addition to moving fees. |
None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Armstrong Teasdale | Bar review course Exam expenses |
$3,000 | None | None | ||
| Andrews Kurth | Bar review course Exam expenses |
$7,500 | Reimburse all reasonable expenses | $1,000 | ||
| Arnold & Porter | $6,000 to $12,000 stipend | $0 to $7,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Arnold and Porter insures most valuables. |
None | ||
| Baker & Hostetler | $5,000 | None | None | |||
| Baker & McKenzie – Dallas | BarBri PMBR Exam fees |
$15,000 (part stipend, part bonus) | None | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | |
| Baker & McKenzie – NY | BarBri PMBR Exam fees |
$5,000 stipend | $5,000 | $8,000 | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | |
| Baker & McKenzie – Palo Alto | BarBri PMBR Exam fees |
$15,000 stipend | None | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | |
| Baker Botts | BarBri | $5,500 signing bonus | None | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers | None | |
| PMBR | $5,000 graduation bonus | Relocation benefit includes moving your car. | ||||
| Exam fees | The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. | |||||
| Hotel | Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. | |||||
| Firm covers gas mileage if you drive, or plane tickets if you fly out. | ||||||
| Baker Hostetler | Up to $3,000 for bar expenses | $5,000 | Up to $5,000 reimbursement | |||
| Balch & Bingham | $5,000 | $10,000 | None | |||
| Ballard Spahr | $5,000 stipend | None | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | ||
| Berenbaum, Weinshienk & Eason | None | None | None | |||
| Bingham | BarBri (direct billing) | None | $10,000 | None | ||
| Blank Rome – NY | $6,000 stipend | None | None | |||
| Blank Rome – Philadelphia | $5,000 to $8,000 stipend | None | None | |||
| Boies, Schiller and Flexner | BarBri (direct billing) Exam expenses |
None | $10,000 | None | ||
| Bracewell & Giuliani | Bar review course Exam expenses |
Graduation bonus TBD annually | None | Up to $3,000 reimbursement | None | |
| Bryan Cave | None | $10,000 | None | |||
| Buchanan Ingersoll | $7,000 | None | None | |||
| Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft | Bar review course Exam expenses Travel |
None | $7,000 to $10,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. Preferred brokers will offer discounts on closing costs and fees |
$0 to $18,000* | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Cahill Gordon & Reindel | Bar review course Exam expenses Travel |
None | $7,000 to $10,000 | $0 to $11,000 | ||
| Chadbourne & Parke | Bar review course Exam expenses Travel Hotel |
None | $10,000 | $9,400* | ||
| Chapman and Cutler | $12,000 stipend | $3,000 | None | |||
| Choate Hall and Stewart | Up to $2,000 reimbursement | |||||
| Glaser Weil (Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro) | Up to $3,000 reimbursement Relocation benefit includes moving your car. |
|||||
| Cleary Gottlieb | Bar review course Exam expenses Travel |
None | $10,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers The firm will cover apartment broker fees. |
$10,000*** | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Clifford Chance | Bar review course Exam expenses Travel |
None | $10,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers $10,000 stipend |
$0 to 5,000 | |
| Cole, Scott & Kissane | None | None | None | |||
| Cooley LLP | Included in stipend | $16,000 stipend | Distances great than 50 miles, direct billing preferred mover, up to $6,000 and under 10,000 pounds. | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | ||
| Covington & Burling | $8,000 stipend | None | Reasonable expenses reimbursed | None | ||
| Cravath, Swaine & Moore | Bar review course Exam expenses Travel |
$3,000 | $7,000 to 8,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers The firm will cover closing costs on a new home. The firm will cover apartment broker fees. |
$7,500 to $10,000 | |
| Crowell & Moring | Bar review course Exam expenses |
None | $10,000 | None | ||
| Davis Polk & Wardwell | Bar review course Exam expenses Travel |
None | $7,000 to $8,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. The firm will cover apartment broker fees. The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. Firm provides storage costs for up to 3 months. |
$0 to $13,000* | No. |
| Day Pitney | $5,000 stipend | |||||
| Debevoise | Bar review course Exam expenses |
None | $10,000 | $0 to $12,000 | ||
| Dechert – NJ | $8,000 stipend | None | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers | $3,000 | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | |
| Dechert – NY & DC | $5,000 stipend | $0 to $10,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers | $10,000 | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | |
| Dechert – PA | $11,000 to $12,000 stipend | None | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers | $0 to $3,000 | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | |
| Dickinson Dees (Bond Dickinson) | None | $5,000 | None | |||
| Dickstein Shapiro | BarBri PMBR Exam fees |
None | $5,000 | None | ||
| DLA Piper – CA | Bar review course Exam expenses |
$15,000 | None | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 18 months | |
| DLA Piper – Chicago | Bar review course PMBR $700 for exam application |
$7,500 (post-tax)*** | None | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 18 months | |
| DLA Piper – NY | Bar review course PMBR Exam expenses Travel |
None | $10,000 | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 18 months | |
| DLA Piper – Seattle | Bar review course PMBR Exam expenses |
$12,000 stipend | None | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 18 months | |
| Dorsey & Whitney | Bar review course Exam expenses |
$5,000 | $5,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. |
None | |
| Dow Lohnes | $5,000 stipend | $5,000 | None | |||
| Drinker Biddle & Reath | bar-related expenses | $10,000 stipend | None | $2,000 stipend | $0 to $5,000 | |
| Duane Morris | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers (up to $2,500) | |||||
| Faegre Baker Daniels | Bar review course Exam fees MPRE |
None for entry level associates Potential signing bonus for lateral associates | Up to $10,000 for entry level associates | Yes | None | |
| Fenwick & West | Bar review course Exam fees |
$15,000 stipend | None | Firm gives moving stipend based on distance | Market stub bonus | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Finnegan Henderson | Bar review course Exam fees |
$18,461 stipend (6 weeks salary) | None | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. The firm will cover closing costs on a new home. The firm will cover apartment broker fees. The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. The firm will provide temporary furnished housing during search for new home. |
None | |
| Fish & Richardson | Bar review course Patent bar review course Exam fees |
$9,230 (3 weeks pay) | $10,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. Firm covers travel for visit and home search |
None | |
| Foley & Lardner | Bar review course Exam expenses |
None | $10,000 | Up to $5,000 reimbursement Relocation benefit includes moving your car. Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. The firm guarantees a down payment loan. |
None | No. |
| Fox Rothschild | Bar review course; Bar exam fees; Related expenses | $5,000 | None | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months. | |
| Freshfields | Bar review course Exam fees |
$10,000 | $10,000 or more | Pro-rated bonus | ||
| Fried Frank | Bar review course Supplemental MBE course (PMBR or other) Exam fees Related expenses (i.e. travel and hotel) |
$3,000 | $15,000 | Pro-rated bonus* | ||
| Fulbright & Jaworski | $10,000 | up to $10,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers | None | ||
| Gardere | $5,000 | None | None | |||
| Gibson Dunn – NY | Bar review course Exam fees |
None | $10,000 | $0 to $9,000 | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | |
| Gibson Dunn – other offices | Bar review course Exam fees |
$12,000 to $13,333 stipend | None | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. |
$0 to $9,000 | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Goodwin Procter | Bar review course PMBR Exam fees |
None | $5,000 | Up to $3,500 reimbursement in Boston and New York Firm has direct billing with preferred movers in DC |
$8,750 | No. |
| Greenberg Traurig – DC | None | None | None | |||
| Greenberg Traurig – Denver | $5,000 | None | None | |||
| Greenberg Traurig – Miami | $5,000 stipend | None | Pro-rated bonus | |||
| Haynes and Boone | Bar review course Exam fees |
$10,500 (part bonus, part stipend) | None | Up to $2,000 reimbursement | None | Pro rata payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Hodgson Russ | $5,000 stipend | None | $0 to $3,000 | |||
| Hogan Lovells | BarBri PMBR Exam fees |
$2,000 to $6,000 stipend | None | Up to $5,000 reimbursement in New York Firm has direct billing with preferred movers in DC and Denver Relocation benefit includes moving your car. |
None | No. |
| Holland & Knight | Bar review course Exam expenses |
$5,000 | None | Up to $3,000 reimbursement Relocation benefit includes moving your car. Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. |
None | |
| Holme Roberts & Owen | $5,000 stipend | None | None | |||
| Hughes Hubbard | Bar review course PMBR Exam fees |
None | $10,000 | Up to $3,000 in reimbursement for relocation expenses | None | No. |
| Hunton & Williams | Bar review course PMBR Exam expenses |
$3,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. Firm covers part of closing costs. |
None | ||
| Irell & Manella | Bar review course Exam fees |
$15,000 stipend (5 weeks pay) | case by case | Up to $3,500 reimbursement Firm has direct billing with preferred movers |
Pro-rated bonus* | |
| Jenner & Block | Bar review course PMBR MPRE Prep Exam expenses |
$13,000 stipend | None | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. |
None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Jones Day – Dallas & DC | Bar review course Exam fees |
$10,000 | None | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers | None | Pro rata payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Jones Day – NY | Bar review course Exam fees |
$6,000 to $8,000 stipend | $6,000 to $7,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers | $0 to $8,000 | Pro rata payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Jones Walker | $3,000 stipend | $5,000 | None | |||
| K&L Gates – NY | BarBri Exam Expenses |
None | $5,000 | Up to $5,000 reimbursement The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. |
None | |
| K&L Gates – Pittsburgh | BarBri Exam Expenses |
$6,000 stipend | Up to $5,000 reimbursement | |||
| K&L Gates – Seattle | BarBri Exam Expenses |
$4,000 to $10,000 | None | Up to $5,000 reimbursement The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. |
None | |
| Kasowitz Benson | Bar review course Exam fees, Travel |
None | $10,000 | the firm reimburses relocation expenses, amount is determined on a case-by-case basis | Pro-rated bonus | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Katten Muchin Rosenman | BarBri (direct billing) Exam fees Travel |
$10,000 stipend | None | $3,000 for moving expenses, provided that the move is from a location outside of the metropolitan area where the attorney will be working. | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Kaye Scholer | Bar review course PMBR Exam fees |
None | Up to $7,500 | Reasonable moving expenses | Pro-rated bonus (up to $10,000) | |
| Keker & Van Nest | Bar review course Exam fees |
$10,000 stipend | None | Pro-rated bonus | ||
| Kelly, Hart & Hallman | $10,000 | None | $5,000 | |||
| Kenyon & Kenyon | Bar review course PMBR Patent bar review course Exam fees |
None | $5,000 to $10,000 | None | ||
| Kilpatrick Stockton | $5,000 to $10,000 | None | None | |||
| King & Spalding – Atlanta | $10,000 | None | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | |
| King & Spalding – DC | $3,000 stipend | $5,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | |
| Kirkland & Ellis | Bar review course Exam fees |
$10,000 bonus*** | None | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. The firm will cover apartment broker fees. The firm covers storage for furniture for up to 6 months. The firm covers one trip to look for housing. |
Full bonus (based on August year-end) | Pro rata payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Latham & Watkins | Bar review course Exam expenses |
$13,333 stipend (4 weeks pay) | None | Up to $6,000 reimbursement Relocation benefit includes moving your car. The firm will provide temporary furnished housing during search for new home. Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. The firm will cover apartment broker fees. The firm will reimburse airline travel or driving expenses. |
None | No. |
| Linklaters | BarBri (direct billing) PMBR (direct billing) Exam fees Travel Hotel |
None | $5,000 to $10,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. The firm will cover apartment broker fees. The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. The firm will provide temporary furnished housing during search for new home. Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. The firm also provides a stipend and salary advance. |
Pro-rated bonus | No. |
| Littler Mendelson | Bar review course | $10,000 | None | 5000 | None | |
| Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell | BarBri (direct billing) Exam expenses |
$15,000 stipend | None | None | ||
| Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps | $12,000 stipend | None | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers | None | ||
| Mayer Brown | Bar review course Exam expenses MPRE |
$10,000 | Up to $10,000 | $7,000 | Prorated (NY Only) | No |
| McDermott, Will & Emery – Chicago and California offices | One (any) Bar Review Course All related exam expenses Will cover UBE |
$10,000 (less applicable taxes) stipend | No | Yes, if relocating 100 miles or more to home office, the Firm will issue a one-time $10,000 payment (less applicable taxes) | No | Pro rata payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| McDermott, Will & Emery – all other U.S. offices | One (any) Bar Review Course Will cover UBE All related exam expenses | $5,000 (less applicable taxes) stipend | No | Yes, if relocating 100 miles orm ore to home office, the Firm will issue a one-time $10,000 payment (less applicable taxes) | No | Pro rata payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter | $0 to $5,000 | None | None | No. | ||
| McGuireWoods | BarBri PMBR Exam fees |
$5,000 signing bonus | None | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. Travel expenses for one house-hunting trip. |
None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Merchant & Gould | $2,000 stipend | None | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 3 years | ||
| Milbank Tweed | BarBri (direct billing) PMBR (direct billing) Exam fees Hotel Travel |
None | $10,000 | $9,000 | ||
| Miller & Chevalier | $6,000 stipend | None | None | |||
| Moore & Van Allen | Bar Review Course Exam Expenses Hotel | TBD | $2,000 | |||
| Morgan, Lewis & Bockius | Bar review course | $10,000 stipend | cbc | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers | Pro-rated bonus (NY only?) | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Exam expenses | ($5,000 in DC) | Relocation benefit includes moving your car. | ||||
| Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. | ||||||
| Reimbursed moving expenses do not include packing costs. | ||||||
| Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell | BarBri PMBR Exam fees |
$5,000 stipend | None | Up to $3,000 reimbursement Relocation benefit includes moving your car. The firm will cover closing costs on a new home. The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. |
None | |
| Morrison & Foerster | $15,000 stipend | cbc | None | |||
| Munger Tolles & Olson | BarBri PMBR Exam fees |
$10,000 to $12,000 stipend | None | Up to $5,000 reimbursement Relocation benefit includes moving your car. The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. |
None | |
| O’Melveny & Myers | BarBri (direct billing) PMBR (direct billing) MPRE Exam expenses |
$10,000 stipend | up to $5,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. Firm will cover 3 months paid storage. Firm will cover airfare. |
$0 to $7,500 | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe | Two bar review courses Exam expenses Hotel Travel |
$10,000 stipend | None | Up to $5,000 reimbursement The firm will provide temporary furnished housing in some markets during search for new home. The firm will pay 20% of broker fee in some markets. |
None | Full payback of bar stipend required if associate leaves within 3 years, and pro rata reimbursement of everything else if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Parker Poe | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 24 months | ||||
| Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler | Bar review course Exam fees Travel |
None | up to $10,000 | Up to $3,000 reimbursement | None | Need to pay back any outstanding amount owed on salary advance. |
| Patton Boggs | $8,000 stipend | None | None | |||
| Paul Hastings | $12,000 to $17,000 stipend | None | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. |
None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | |
| Paul Weiss | The Firm covers most expenses related to registering, preparing and taking the bar exam | No, the Firm’s generous bar exam reimbursement program covers or reimburses most expenses related to the bar exam | Yes, the Firm provides an interest-free salary advance repaid through salary deductions | Yes, employees that relocate as a result of joining Paul, Weiss, are eligible to be reimbursed for their relocation expenses | First-year associates receive pro-rated year-end bonuses | No |
| Pepper Hamilton | $8,000 stipend | None | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | ||
| Perkins Coie | Bar review course Exam expenses Hotel |
$8,000 – $10,000 stipend
(depending on location) |
Up to $7,500 available; more possible with advance approval | Firm covers reasonable moving expenses plus airfare or mileage for attorney and immediate family | None | Full repayment required if associate departs during first year with the firm; one-half repayable if associate departs between 12 and 24 months. |
| Pillsbury | BarBri (direct billing) Exam fees |
None | $10,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. Firm will cover cost of airfare. |
$0 to $4,000 (New York only) | No. |
| Porter & Hedges | $10,000 | None | None | |||
| Powell Goldstein | Up to $5,000 reimbursement | |||||
| Proskauer Rose | All Bar expenses paid. | None | $10,000 interest free loan to be paid back over the first full year of employment | Qualifying relocation expenses up to $3,000 | Prorated portion of bonus based on start date | |
| Quarles & Brady | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers The firm will cover closing costs on a new home. |
Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | ||||
| Quinn Emanuel | BarBri PMBR Exam fees |
$10,000 stipend | None | Up to $10,000 reimbursement Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. |
None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Reed Smith | BarBri PMBR Exam fees |
$7,000 stipend | None | Up to $3,000 reimbursement | Pro-rated bonus | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Ropes & Gray | Bar Review Course, MPRE PMBR Exam fees |
None | up to $10,000 | Up to $6,000 | Pro-rated bonus | |
| Saul Ewing | $3,000 stipend | None | None | |||
| Schulte Roth & Zabel | Bar review course Bar exam fees PMBR exam fees |
None | $10,000 | Firm reimburses “reasonable expenses” | Pro-rated bonus | |
| Schwartz Cooper | Bar review course Exam fees |
$10,000 | None | None | ||
| Seward & Kissel | None | |||||
| Seyfarth Shaw | Bar review course Exam expenses |
$12,000 stipend | None | None | ||
| Shearman & Sterling | BarBri (direct billing) PMBR (direct billing) Exam fees MPRE Travel |
None | $7,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. The firm will cover closing costs on a new home. The firm will cover up to $1,500 in apartment broker fees. The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. The firm will provide temporary furnished housing during search for new home. |
Pro-rated bonus* | |
| Sheppard Mullin | Bar review course is direct-billed to firm; stipend to cover exam fees | $8,000 stipend | None | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers; airfare (if applicable) to city where associate will be working. | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Shook Hardy & Bacon | $6,000 | None | None | |||
| Sidley Austin | Bar review course PMBR Exam fees |
$10,000 stipend*** | up to $10,000 | Up to $3,500 reimbursement in Chicago, $5,000 reimbursement in NY, and $2,500 reimbursement in DC. Relocation benefit includes moving your car. The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. The firm will represent employees in purchase of new home. The firm pays for one round trip ticket for both the associate and spouse for house hunting. |
$10,000 | No. |
| Skadden | Bar review course PMBR Exam fees MPRE Hotel Travel |
None | $10,000, plus $5,000 in March | $3,000 to $4,000 reimbursement The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. Firm will cover two nights at a hotel for house-hunting trip. |
Pro-rated bonus | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months (4 months in the case of moving expenses) |
| Dentons | Bar review course Exam expenses |
$5,000 | up to $5,000 | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | |
| Stearns Weaver | None | None | None | |||
| Steptoe & Johnson | $8,000 stipend | None | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. |
None | ||
| Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC | $4,000 stipend | None | None | |||
| Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth | $12,000 bonus | None | Up to $4,000 reimbursement | None | ||
| $6,000 stipend | Relocation benefit includes moving your car. | |||||
| Sullivan & Cromwell | Bar review course PMBR Exam fees MPRE Hotel Travel |
None | $7,000 to $10,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. The firm will cover closing costs on a new home. The firm will cover apartment broker fees. The firm will provide consulting services from professional house or apartment hunters. The firm will provide temporary furnished housing during search for new home.. The firm will provide up to 3 months storage. Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. |
Pro-rated bonus ($5,000 to $12,000) | |
| Sutherland Asbill & Brennan | $10,000 | $3,000 | None | |||
| Thacher Proffitt & Wood | BarBri PMBR Exam fees Travel |
None | $10,000 | None | ||
| Thompson Hine | $6,000 | None | Up to $5,000 reimbursement Relocation benefit includes moving your car. |
None | ||
| Troutman Sanders | Bar review course Exam expenses |
None | $5,000 | $1,500 stipend | None | Full payback required if associate leaves within 12 months |
| Ulmer & Berne | $7,000 | None | None | |||
| Venable | Bar review course, Exam Expenses, Bar/Bri (Direct Billing), MPRE | None | $10,000 | Up to $3,000 reimbursement for moving household goods. | None | |
| Vinson & Elkins | Bar review course Exam expenses |
$3,000 | $10,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. |
$10,000 (New York only) | |
| Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz | $3,000 stipend | $20,000 | $1,000 stipend | Pro-rated bonus | ||
| Weil, Gotshal & Manges | Bar review course PMBR Exam fees MPRE Hotel Travel |
None | $10,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. |
Pro-rated bonus | No. |
| White & Case – non-NY | Bar review course PMBR Exam fees |
None | up to $7,500 | Pro-rated bonus | ||
| White & Case – NY | Bar review course PMBR Exam fees Travel |
$4,000 stipend | up to $8,000 | Pro-rated bonus | ||
| Wiggin & Dana | $3,000 stipend | $7,000 | None | |||
| Wiley Rein | Bar review course PMBR Exam fees Hotel Travel |
$5,000 stipend | None | None | ||
| Williams & Connolly | Bar review course Exam expenses |
None | cbc | Reasonable expenses up to a cap. | None | |
| Willkie Farr & Gallagher | Bar review course Exam fees |
None | $10,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. |
Pro-rated bonus | |
| WilmerHale | Bar review course PMBR Exam fees (up to two states) Travel Hotel |
$5,000 | Up to $10,000 | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. |
Pro-rated bonus* | |
| Wilson Sonsini | $17,500 stipend | None | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers Relocation benefit includes moving your car. Employees receive preferred treatment from specific lenders. |
$0 to $3,000 | Pro rata payback required if associate leaves within 12 months | |
| Winston & Strawn | Bar review course PMBR Exam fees |
$10,000 stipend | None | $10,000 (New York only) | ||
| Womble Carlyle | Firm has direct billing with preferred movers The firm will cover closing costs on a new home. The firm will provide temporary furnished housing during search for new home. |
|||||
| Young Conaway | $5,000 stipend | None | None |
Promoted
The Global Legal News You Need, When You Need It
The Global Legal News You Need, When You Need It
News and analysis from this company could be a game-changer for legal professionals working globally.
News and analysis from this company could be a game-changer for legal professionals working globally.
Promoted
Stuck Drafting A Tough Brief? This Tool Can Help.
Stuck Drafting A Tough Brief? This Tool Can Help.
LexisNexis Brief Analysis produces powerful, near-instant legal argumentation insights using the power of AI.
LexisNexis Brief Analysis produces powerful, near-instant legal argumentation insights using the power of AI.
Promoted
Legal Knowledge Management To Drive Dealmaking
Legal Knowledge Management To Drive Dealmaking
Here’s how Lexis Search Advantage | Transactional unites internal and external research to create better deals faster.
Here’s how Lexis Search Advantage | Transactional unites internal and external research to create better deals faster.
Promoted
What Do Millennials Think Of Law Firm Life?
What Do Millennials Think Of Law Firm Life?
We want to know your views on law firm policies and culture.
We want to know your views on law firm policies and culture.
