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Entry-level corporate lawyers now can make $200k or more
NY Post ^
| 06/14/2021
| Theo Wayt
Posted on 06/14/2021 1:42:51 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Pay for first year corporate attorneys has skyrocketed, with some firms now paying young graduates more than $200,000 starting salaries.
New York-based corporate law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, which has 975 attorneys, upped pay on Friday for 2021 law school graduates to $202,500, the Wall Street Journal reported. Another New York law firm, 765-attorney Milbank LLP, reportedly raised first-year pay to $200,000 last week.
Other firms that jacked-up pay in the past week include Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP; Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo PC; and Proskauer Rose LLP, according to the Journal, which also reported firms paid-out bonuses throughout the pandemic.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: corporate; entry; lawyers; level
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How many of these "woke" morons are competent when it comes to practicing law after what they learned in law schools these days?
To: ChicagoConservative27
How many of these "woke" morons are competent when it comes to practicing law after what they learned in law schools these days? None, so don't find yourself at a judges mercy as they migrate to the bench.
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posted on
06/14/2021 1:46:13 PM PDT
by
1Old Pro
(Let's make crime illegal again!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
In a world where the judges make up law for each case, using the concept of the”living Constitution” taught in law schools for decades, the freshly minted attorneys should do well.
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posted on
06/14/2021 1:48:29 PM PDT
by
Soul of the South
(The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
What about the firm of Dewey, Cheathem and Howe?
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posted on
06/14/2021 1:52:41 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
No amount of money is enough to make me live in the New York City area. No amount whatsoever. A zillion dollars? Hah. I'd rather live in a rotting single-wide hidden up some dark hollow.
To: ChicagoConservative27
“How many of these “woke” morons are competent when it comes to practicing law after what they learned in law schools
these days?”
Zero. New LS grads know less than nothing. They are used to pad the bills until they learn a thing or two. Associates at big firms can languish for years before learning how to do anything of merit. Most will wash out in a few years with a few select sticking it out.
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posted on
06/14/2021 1:53:47 PM PDT
by
13foxtrot
To: ChicagoConservative27
Government Of the Lawyers, By The Lawyers, For The Lawyers.
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posted on
06/14/2021 1:53:55 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
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posted on
06/14/2021 1:53:55 PM PDT
by
polymuser
(A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
To: ChicagoConservative27
I’m guessing that knowledge of the law (who needs it?) is completely secondary to the important question: “Are you in the club?”
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posted on
06/14/2021 1:54:18 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
To: ChicagoConservative27
This doesn’t surprise me, since the local McDonald’s had “$17/hour to start” on their sign here yesterday.
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posted on
06/14/2021 1:54:30 PM PDT
by
NEMDF
To: dfwgator
“Government Of the Lawyers, By The Lawyers, For The Lawyers.”
That is so accurate!
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posted on
06/14/2021 1:54:50 PM PDT
by
polymuser
(A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
To: 13foxtrot
Associates at big firms can languish for years before learning how to do anything of merit.Then they go to Washington DC.
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posted on
06/14/2021 1:55:26 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
New York-based corporate law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, which has 975 attorneys, upped pay on Friday for 2021 law school graduates to $202,500, the Wall Street Journal reported. Another New York law firm, 765-attorney Milbank LLP, reportedly raised first-year pay to $200,000 last week. Downside is that it's in New York City.
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posted on
06/14/2021 1:56:49 PM PDT
by
Sooth2222
(“Taxation without representation is tyranny.” -James Otis (1761))
To: 1Old Pro
There’s “practicing law” and then there is litigating.
Litigators are the real lawyers. The corporate drudges are only glorified clerks, and should never preside over any trial court.
Just my opinion, of course.
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posted on
06/14/2021 1:56:50 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
“Entry-level corporate lawyers now can make $200k or more”
No wonder the brightest students opt for Law Degrees instead of STEM Degrees.
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posted on
06/14/2021 1:57:43 PM PDT
by
antidemoncrat
(somRead more at: https://economicti)
To: ChicagoConservative27
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posted on
06/14/2021 1:59:38 PM PDT
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Isn’t a law degree a form of privilege? If so, shouldn’t we ban them?
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posted on
06/14/2021 2:00:34 PM PDT
by
alternatives?
(If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
Why would they pay that much?
To: ChicagoConservative27
That’s almost $40 an hour.;-)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
06/14/2021 2:02:03 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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