Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld is the latest top U.S. firm to announce it will pay its associates special fall bonuses, meeting the scale set by Davis Polk & Wardwell in September, even as some large firms nix the compensation payments.

Akin Gump will pay associates and counsel, including those in its London office, a special fall bonus ranging from $7,500 to $40,000, depending on seniority, on November 30, and those payments are not expected to affect the year-end bonus process.