Associates with at least two Big-Tex firms — Haynes and Boone and Fulbright & Jaworski — are learning firsthand what a pay freeze means.

And associates with at least three other firms don’t know where they stand. Spokeswomen at Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, as well as a partner in Strasburger & Price, report their firms currently are looking at associate salaries.