Jones Day and Weil, Gotshal & Manges have joined the list of law firms paying California first-year associates $160,000 rather than the $145,000 embraced by most homegrown firms. And now California's associate messageboards are crammed with anonymous young lawyers carping about their firms' failure to match the higher New York scale. But many associates accept the idea that New York and California are distinct markets -- and some would like to keep it that way.
February 07, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Jones Day and Weil, Gotshal & Manges joined the list of firms paying California first-years $160,000 rather than the $145,000 embraced by most homegrown firms. But homegrown firms probably aren’t facing a run on talent.
“The way I see it is that I just turned 29, and I am making $190,000 base plus bonus,” said James Han, a fourth-year associate at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. “How many 29-year-olds make that much money? There isn’t any reason to complain.”
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