Following the stampede of elephantine California firms to hike associate salaries to the New York level, several smaller Cal Law 25 firms continue to join the herd.

Silicon Valley stalwarts Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Fenwick & West, San Francisco-based Heller Ehrman and Los Angeles’ Irell & Manella are among the latest firms to raise starting pay in California to $160,000.