Legal services updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Legal services news. A period of frenzied corporate dealmaking and a talent war has pushed pay deals for junior and mid-career lawyers to new highs, with some US firms offering sign-on and retention bonuses […]
Business Lawyers
Lawyers Go to Austin, Texas for Business, Stay for the Lifestyle
Large law firms are flocking to Austin, Texas, lured by tech companies such as Tesla Inc., Apple Inc., and Oracle Inc., and the realization that lawyers want to live there. In 2021 alone, large firms Kirkland & Ellis, Quinn Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan, and O’Melveny & Myers announced Austin office […]
Golden handcuffs: dealmaking lawyers weigh up their own Faustian bargains
Executive Pay updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Executive Pay news. Sympathy for lawyers on a starting salary of $200,000 straight out of law school is scant at the best of times. And these are not the best of times. US firms’ […]