SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT
First-Year-Associate Compensation at New Jersey Firms
| Firm | Main N.J. Location | 2007 Hires | 2007 Comp. | 2006 Hires | 2006 Comp. | Pct. Increase |
| Dechert | Princeton | 2 | $145,000 | 0 | $135,000 | 7.4% |
| Drinker Biddle | Florham Park | 5 | $145,000 | 6 | $125,000 | 16.0% |
| Flaster/Greenberg | Cherry Hill | 3 | $130,000 | 2 | $120,000 | 8.3% |
| Fox Rothschild | Princeton | 8 | $125,000 | 4 | $125,000 | 0.0% |
| Gibbons | Newark | 10 | $125,000 | 12 | $97,000 | 28.9% |
| Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis | Woodbridge | 6 | $110,000 | 6 | $97,500 | 12.8% |
| Kirkpatrick & Lockhart | Newark | 2 | $132,000 | 4 | $122,000 | 8.2% |
| Latham & Watkins | Newark | 6 | $160,000 | 6 | $135,000 | 18.5% |
| Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik* | Westfield | 4 | $145,000 | 5 | $125,000 | 16.0% |
| Lowenstein Sandler | Roseland | 26 | $140,000 | 14 | $115,000 | 21.7% |
| McCarter & English* | Newark | 13 | $135,000 | 11 | $115,000 | 17.4% |
| McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter | Morristown | 19 | $105,000 | 13 | $92,500 | 13.5% |
| Morgan Lewis & Bockius | Princeton | 3 | $145,000 | 1 | $135,000 | 7.4% |
| Pepper Hamilton | Princeton | 1 | $145,000 | 2 | $125,000 | 16.0% |
| Porzio, Bromberg & Newman | Morristown | 7 | $120,000 | 4 | $100,000 | 20.0% |
| Proskauer Rose | Newark | 5 | $130,000 | 5 | $115,000 | 13.0% |
| Reed Smith | Princeton | 1 | $130,000 | 3 | $120,000 | 8.3% |
| Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti | Morristown | 7 | $120,000 | 7 | $110,000 | 9.1% |
| Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross | Newark | 6 | $127,000 | 6 | $115,000 | 10.4% |
| Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer | Woodbridge | 5 | $100,000 | 1 | $100,000 | 0.0% |
| WolfBlock Brach Eichler | Roseland | 4 | $115,000 | 1 | $100,000 | 15.0% |
| Average | 12.7% | |||||
| *Salary to be effective Jan. 1, 2008. | ||||||
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