Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jul. 27, 2007
Not Just Money
Forum Column - Stacey D. Pacelli - For retaining associates, quality of life may prove to be more important than quantity of pay.
By Stacey D. Pacelli
Though starting salaries of $145,000 are not even recent history, they are being increased again at most national law firms, this time to a healthy $160,000 for first year associates. The argument that has carried the day on the West Coast is that firms have to pay California associates the same as East Coast associates in order to compete for top talent. With too few law school graduates from...
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