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• Speculation on spring bonuses after S&C's 'anaemic' award

  May 01 2012 Speculation about the timing and amount of spring bonuses continues, after Sullivan & Cromwell’s announced relatively small bonus awards of between $1000 and $5000, or... more

• Quinn Emanuel leads the pack on spring bonuses

  Apr 27 2012 Quinn Emmanuel has become one of the first large law firms to announce the award of spring bonuses, and though the figures have not yet been released, a firm memo from... more

• Large law firms likely to award spring bonuses again this year, say experts

  Jan 27 2012 Legal industry experts predict that large law firms will again award spring bonuses in 2012, following on from a trend begun in 2011, but that spring bonuses are... more

• California firm Irell & Manella doubles the Cravath bonus award

  Jan 06 2012 California firm Irell & Manella has once again topped the bonuses awarded by standard setter Cravath Swaine & Moore. The firm released a memo saying that it would give... more

• US firm Davis Polk follows the leader on bonuses

  Dec 19 2011 US firm Davis Polk & Wardwell has announced its annual bonuses for associates, matching the rates set by Cravath Swaine & Moore last month The Cravath bonus scale... more

• Washington lawyer pleads guilty to securities fraud

  Dec 17 2011 Washington lawyer Matthew Kluger pled guilty on Wednesday to securities fraud, obstruction of justice and other charges. The charges maintained that over the... more

• Davis Polk & Wardwell follows the flock on annual bonuses

  Dec 14 2011 Davis Polk & Wardwell has announced that it will match the bonus structure put forward by Cravath Swaine & Moore. Like Cravath, Davis Polk's bonus scale begins... more

• Sullivan & Cromwell repeats last year's bonus figures

  Dec 09 2011 Sullivan & Cromwell has announced that it will award year-end bonuses of the same size as were awarded last year, but sweetens the news by saying that associates can... more

• Proskauer Rose follows Cravath bonus scale

  Dec 06 2011 Proskauer Rose has announced that it will match the bonus scale set by Cravath Swaine & Moore. The level of these bonuses is considered to be down the lower end of the... more

• Skadden matches Cravath bonus scale

  Dec 01 2011 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has matched the 2011 bonuses offered by market leader Cravath, Swaine & Moore, all but ensuring a steady and predictable bonus... more

• Cali firm Irell & Manella pushes ahead of the game with mid year bonuses

  Jul 26 2011 California law firm Irell & Manella has announced that it will be paying mid-year bonuses to associates. After being awarded bonuses that doubled the market... more

• Cravath scores with hire of top competition regulator

  Jul 07 2011 The US governement’s top competition regulator Christine Varney is stepping down from her role at the Justice Department to become a partner at the New York law firm... more

• Skadden leads ranking of top US law firms

  May 17 2011 If you needed another ranking of the top US law firms, here it is. Corporate Board Member magazine and global business advisory firm FTI Consulting Inc asked US... more

• US firms flock to Hong Kong

  May 16 2011 US firms are flocking to Hong Kong with 46 of the top 100 US firms (by revenue) having a presence in the city. In the past year firms such as Locke Lord Bissell &... more

• Texas-based Vinson & Elkins to pay spring bonuses

  Apr 21 2011 Texas based firm Vinson & Elkins, has announced that it will pay spring bonuses. The announced bonuses are below the scale set by Cravath Swaine & Moore: • Class of... more

• Mayer Brown to pay spring bonuses to US associates

  Apr 18 2011 Mayer Brown has jumped on the spring bonus bandwagon with the announcement that it will pay US-based associates according to the scale set by Cravath Swaine & Moore.... more

• Philadelphia-based firm Dechert announces spring bonuses

  Apr 13 2011 International firm Dechert has announced the award of spring bonuses to associates and counsel. The firm will pay qualifying associates in May, according to the... more

• US lawyer accused of stealing and trading on info from top law firms

  Apr 07 2011 Matthew H. Kluger, until recently a senior associate at the Washington office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, has been charged with stealing confidential... more

• Gibson Dunn & Crutcher on the spring bonus bandwagon

  Apr 06 2011 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has taken the decision to grant spring bonuses to associates, matching the market with payments equal to those awarded by Cravath Swaine &... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf follows spring bonus trend

  Mar 17 2011 Dewey & LeBoeuf has made the relatively late that it will pay spring bonuses at the top-of-market rate set by Cravath Swaine & Moore. These bonuses are additional to... more

• Cleary steps up spring bonuses to match Cravath scale

  Mar 01 2011 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has announced that it will be paying spring bonuses, following the scale set by Cravath Swaine & Moore. The firm had previously... more

• Shearman & Sterling announces spring bonuses

  Feb 24 2011 Shearman & Sterling has announced that it will be paying spring bonuses in New York, following the scale set by Cravath Swaine & Moore for the spring payment. As... more

• The secret to UK firm Slaughter and May's success

  Feb 21 2011 Slaughter and May is among the most profitable law firms in London, paying its 126 partners an average of £1.84m for their efforts despite posting sales at £439.5m,... more

• Freshfields follows the leader with US spring bonuses

  Feb 16 2011 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has awarded spring bonuses to its 82 US–based associates, following the lead set by Sullivan & Cromwell, Cravath, Swaine & Moore,... more

• Spring bonuses abound while partnership prospects wither

  Feb 14 2011 Just one month after firms handed out their end of year bonuses, it seems that it is bonus time again. A number of firms have made announcements regarding ‘spring... more

• Morrison & Foerster announces spring bonuses

  Feb 10 2011 Morrison & Foerster has announced its spring bonuses for associates. Non-New York associates are set to see bonuses that loosely follows the Cravath, Swaine & Moore... more

• Cravath loses star M&A partner to JP Morgan

  Jan 25 2011 M&A partner James Woolery is set to leave Cravath Swaine & Moore to join the financial institution JP Morgan. Woolery will work alongside Christopher Ventresca at the... more

• Sullivan & Cromwell announces generous spring bonuses

  Jan 24 2011 Sullivan & Cromwell has announced a generous spring bonuses for its associates. The firm has decided to the 2010 year-end bonuses, announced in December, with a... more

• Vinson & Elkins remembers the staff at bonus time

  Jan 06 2011 Vinson & Elkins did not forget their legal support staff when handing out end-of-year bonuses in December, and now the firm has announced that there will be an extra... more

• Clifford Chance follows Cravath bonus scale

  Dec 24 2010 London-based firm Clifford Chance has announced that its US associates will receive bonuses of between $7,500 and $35,000 at the beginning of 2011. The bonus package... more

• Sidley Austin announces 25% increase in total bonuses paid

  Dec 22 2010 Sidley Austin has announced that the number of associates receiving an end-of-bonus has increased by nearly 20%, and the total sum awarded for bonuses has increased by... more

• US firm Debevoise & Plimpton follows Cravath bonus scale

  Dec 20 2010 Debevoise & Plimpton has announced its 2010 associate bonuses, following a slew of large law firms to match the scale set by Cravath, Swaine & Moore. The bonuses... more

• From redundancy rounds to big bonuses in one year

  Dec 20 2010 When Cravath, Swaine & Moore announced year-end bonuses of $7,000- $35,000, a host of other large law firms adopted the same bonus scale as a standard and followed... more

• What can we learn from this year's promotions?

  Dec 17 2010 This article takes a closer look at some of the decisions being made in this year’s partnership promotions round, asking what those decisions indicate about the... more

• Susman Godfrey smashes Cravath bonus scale with 6-figure payments

  Dec 14 2010 The standard set by the Cravath Swaine & Moore end-of-year bonuses has been surpassed again, with Susman Godfrey - the 90 lawyer litigation boutique with offices in... more

• Clifford Chance recruits investment banker from Bank of America

  Dec 14 2010 London-based law firm Clifford Chance has hired former Bank of America Corp investment banker Robert F. Masella as a mergers and acquisitions partner in New York.... more

• Cahill Gordon & Reindel takes the lead on associate bonuses

  Dec 10 2010 Cahill Gordon & Reindel appears to be taking the lead on associate bonuses, breaking ranks with other law firms, who have largely followed the standard set by Cravath... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf follows Cravath bonus scale

  Dec 08 2010 Dewey & LeBoeuf has announced bonuses for its US counsel and associates, with the firm essentially following the scale set by Cravath, Swaine & Moore. The... more

• Akin Gump follows Cravath's bonus scale, delays payment until 2011

  Dec 07 2010 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has announced its associate bonuses, adopting the Cravath, Swaine & Moore scale, at least in New York. The Bonuses to be paid are as... more

• Proskauer Rose matches bonus scale

  Dec 03 2010 US firm Proskauer Rose has announced its 2010 bonuses, matching the scale set by Cravath, Swaine & Moore. The details of the bonus package are still not available,... more

• Milbank matches Cravath's bonus scale, delays payment until January

  Nov 25 2010 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has announced the details of its associate bonus package, which matches the scale released by Cravath, Swaine & Moore some days ago.... more

• Skadden matches Cravath's bonus scale

  Nov 24 2010 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has announced the rate of bonuses to be received by associates, matching the figures announced a day earlier by Cravath, Swaine &... more

• Cravath Swaine & Moore gives pro bono bankruptcy advice to US municipality

  Nov 12 2010 Cravath Swaine & Moore is set to work pro bono for the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, offering its bankruptcy to advise its city council concerning a potential... more

• Four firms lead on Unilever's US$3.7bn acquisition

  Sep 28 2010 Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Slaughter and May, Sidley Austin and Latham & Watkins have taken lead roles on the $3.7 billion all-cash acquisition of leading US hair... more

• Linklaters zeros in on US high-yield practice

  Sep 13 2010 Linklaters has hired counsel Mark Hageman, of Cravath Swaine & Moore, in order to boost their capability in the high-yield market. High-yield specialists seem to... more

• Good news for law students: New York summer programs expand

  Aug 11 2010 The New York Law Journal has published some good news for law school graduates. Columbia Law School has reported that their second-year students have secured 8 per... more

• Cravath senior partner to become chief legal officer at Morgan Stanley

  Jul 06 2010 Cravath Swaine & Moore will say goodbye to senior partner Francis Barron who, after 32 years with the firm, is set to take the helm of the legal department at Morgan... more

• Six firms lead $3.2 billion pharma merger

  Jun 22 2010 Six firms have advised on the $3.2 billion merger between Biovail, Canada's largest public pharmaceutical company, with California-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals.... more

• Freshfields keeps PEPs high through recession

  May 18 2010 Some interesting figures arise from The Lawyer’s Transatlantic Elite report, such as the fact that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has posted the industry’s highest... more

• Record profits without axing staff: Cravath Swaine & Moore and Davis Polk & Wardwell

  Mar 22 2010 A number of firms posted record profit per partner figures in 2009, despite a difficult economic climate. And while many of them boosted profits by paring back their... more

• Tough Times for Cravath, Swaine & Moore

  Dec 15 2009 Cravath, Swaine & Moore offered the incoming class of associates $80,000 to not work, plus benefits and student-loan payments. According to the Wall Street Journal,... more

• US trio on track for Warren Buffett's $34bn railway buyout

  Nov 05 2009 A trio of US firms have taken lead roles on Berkshire Hathaway's $34bn (£20.6bn) acquisition of a 77% stake in railway operator Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF),... more

• Cravath Cuts Associate Bonuses

  Nov 03 2009 For the second year in a row, one of New York's leading BigLaw firms has cut associate bonuses Cravath Swaine & Moore will pay associates bonuses of $7,500 to $30,000... more

• Deal King & Law Media Mogul Dies; Bruce Wasserstein Once Worked for Cravath

  Oct 15 2009 Bruce Wasserstein, a onetime corporate lawyer at Cravath Swaine & Moore who became a deal king and law media mogul has died a few days after being hospitalized for an... more

• Simpson Thacher, Cravath, Ropes & Gray advise on $6.4bn Xerox deal

  Sep 29 2009 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Cravath Swaine & Moore and Ropes & Gray won roles on Xerox's $6.4bn purchase of business process outsourcing company Affiliated Computer... more

• Vault Top 100 Law Firms 2010: And the winner is... Wachtell

  Aug 26 2009 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is the most prestigious law firm according to Vault’s law firm rankings by law firm associates, defending its No. 1 spot for the seventh... more

• Simpson, Cravath, Bredin Prat win lead roles in KKR merger

  Jul 23 2009 Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett, Cravath Swaine & Moore and Bredin Prat have advised on private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co's (KKR's) merger with its... more

• Top US law firms avoid deferrals

  Jun 18 2009 Most of the top US law firms are currently not deferring associates despite the financial crisis. According to the AmLaw Daily, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz;... more

• Vault Top 100 Law Firms 2009: Wachtell #1 for sixth year

  Aug 16 2008 The top 10 firms as ranked in the Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms are: 1. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (New York, NY) 2. Cravath, Swaine & Moore (New York,... more