Monday BigLaw Merry-Go-Round (Jun 21, 2021)

Recent reports on lateral hires, financial data, salaries, and hiring trends in BigLaw.

• "Cravath Matches Starting Associate Pay, Offering $205K For First-Years," The American Lawyer

• "More Top Firms Match Davis Polk, and Skadden Offers More Than Money," The American Lawyer

• "7 More Firms Raise Associate Salaries," Law360

• "'Slap in the Face': How Law Firm Staff Feel About Associate Raises," The American Lawyer

• "Latest Salary Increases Will Cost Firms. But Not as Much as 'Special' Bonuses," The American Lawyer

• "While Holdouts Remain in Associate Salary Battle, O'Melveny and Pillsbury Match," The American Lawyer

• "'Justifying the Stress': As Associate Pay Tops $200K, UK and European Lawyers Are Unconvinced," Law.com International

• "More Salary Dominoes Fall at Am Law 200 Firms While Others Wait and See," The American Lawyer

• "Matching Davis Polk Is a Short-Term Win in a Hot Market. But What Happens Next?," The American Lawyer

• "Entry-level corporate lawyers now can make $200K or more," New York Post

• "Entry-Level Lawyers Are Now Making $200,000 a Year," The Wall Street Journal

• "After Davis Polk Jumped Ahead, Other Firms Take Diverging Paths On Associate Raises," The American Lawyer

• "Davis Polk Raises Associate Salaries Above Milbank's Scale," The American Lawyer

• "Elite N.Y. firms are in a battle for talent. Could they all be losing?," Reuters

• "Reed Smith, Offering Severance to Legal Secretaries, Introduces Executive Assistant Role," The Legal Intelligencer

• "Skepticism Remains Over Big Law's Remote Work Flexibility," The American Lawyer

• "As Profits Stagnate, the UK's Elite Can't Keep Up With US Peers," The American Lawyer

• "The Global Lawyer: Are Lawyers Still Driven by the Dollar (or Pound or Euro)?," Law.com International

• "A Hiring War: Companies and Firms Duke it Out for Top Talent," Corporate Counsel

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