Washington Wrap is a weekly look at the biggest legal industry news and Big Law moves shaping the legal business in Washington, D.C. Send tips and lateral moves to Ryan Lovelace at [email protected].

It’s a season of blooming Big Law salaries, with more and more firms gritting their teeth and adopting the ritzy new associate pay scales that Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and Cravath, Swaine & Moore announced earlier this month.