DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has increased its associate salaries in Philadelphia to among the highest in the city. First-year associates will now make $125,000 per year in Philadelphia, which will be retroactively applied to Jan. 1, according to DLA Piper’s co-managing partner for the United States, Jeffrey F. Liss.

The firm also decided to take the suggestion of many of its associates and switch to a lock-step program, Liss said.