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What we perceive is that the corporations which are paying essentially the most additionally typically give the very best bonuses, and there are causes for that. These are the corporations which are actually competing with [Biglaw] for expertise, that’s why their salaries are the identical or reaching in the direction of [Biglaw], and the bonuses are typically considerably greater than in [Biglaw].
— Jay Edelson, founding father of plaintiffs agency Edelson PC, in feedback given to the American Lawyer, regarding compensation transparency at plaintiffs corporations. “It’s solely been newer the place plaintiffs corporations have been going to [on campus interviews], particularly on the high colleges, and a part of that was that the profession providers division didn’t actually assist plaintiffs work,” Edelson continued. “Once we began going there years in the past, we’ve been going for about 15 years, we needed to clarify that no, we don’t pay $30,000 a 12 months. That’s simply not the way it works, however that’s the messaging they gave to their college students as a result of frankly they only didn’t know.” The Nationwide Plaintiffs Regulation Affiliation is at the moment conducting an nameless survey to collect pay knowledge from plaintiffs corporations, whereas Edelson has compiled his personal tiered record of beginning salaries at greater than a dozen of the biggest plaintiffs corporations within the nation.
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