Large Firms
Mar. 7, 2000
Fee Frenzy
By Leslie A. Gordon A frequent visitor to a Yahoo bulletin board on salaries known as the Silicon Valley Greedy Associates Club uses the screen name "Viva_Bob_Gunderson." That designation pretty much captures how most California associates feel about the founding partner of Menlo Park's Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, the firm that stunned the legal community in December by raising first-year associate salaries to as high as $150,000 - a 50 percent increase from the
A frequent visitor to a Yahoo bulletin board on salaries known as the Silicon Valley Greedy Associates Club uses the screen name "Viva_Bob_Gunderson." That designation pretty much captures how most California associates feel about the founding partner of Menlo Park's Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, the firm t...
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