Featured Job Survey: Who Would You Choose?
So far this week, we've asked you whether you would want to work in a different city and whether, knowing what you know now, you would still want to work where you do.
In today's ATL / Lateral Link survey, we ask you a related question: if you could go to any other firm, who would you choose?
We'll report results from this week's surveys next week, and will update our clerkship, maternity leave, and paternity leave charts as well, so please keep those tips coming. (Thanks, by the way, to the commenter who noted the $50K/$70K clerkship bonus at Ropes. That's actually only true in New York, but I'll update the chart to reflect it. And a shout-out to JDBliss for noting the paternity leave survey recently.)
Comments
In your updated chart, please be sure to note that although Ropes give higher clerkship bonuses in NY than they do elsewhere for one year clerkships, they give the same -- $70k -- across the board for two year clerkships.
See ALT's earlier post:
Yes, that's right. In its New York office, Ropes & Gray has upped its clerkship bonus to $50,000 (and $35,000 in its other offices). If you have two years of clerkship experience, you'll get $70,000 -- no matter what office you're in.
From the firm website:
Our annual salary for first-year associates, in all of our offices, is $160,000. Associates joining Ropes & Gray from one or two years of clerking are treated as members of their law school class for compensation purposes. Associates joining our New York office receive a bonus of $50,000 if they clerked for one year and $70,000 for two years of clerking; associates joining our other offices receive a bonus of $35,000 if they clerked for one year and $70,000 for two years of clerking.
Posted by: Anonymous | March 13, 2008 10:34 AM
Yep. Thanks again.
Posted by: Justin | March 13, 2008 11:06 AM
You have "Dewey Ballantine" as one of the automatic choices for firms in this survey...maybe you should correct that...
Posted by: Anonymous | March 13, 2008 11:11 AM
Foley & Lardner gives $35k clerkship bonuses.
Posted by: Anonymous | March 17, 2008 08:25 AM