Escape the stretchy pants and gratitude journals, as a result of McKool Smith, the Texas-based advanced trial agency that’s been handing out cash to associates hand over fist for years, simply dropped slightly vacation shock on its attorneys: particular Thanksgiving bonuses, starting from $2,500 to $10,000 relying on seniority.
Sure, along with year-end bonuses.
It’s not fairly Milbank’s summer “please love us, please stay, please bill” bonus extravaganza, however McKool’s providing is nothing to sneeze at. Is it life-changing? No. Is it sufficient to purchase a aircraft ticket house, a good bottle of bourbon, and the emotional buffer required to outlive a full Thanksgiving weekend with prolonged household? Completely. And that is the type of gesture that retains morale excessive — or no less than above the extent the place attorneys begin doom-scrolling job boards throughout lunch.
So congratulations, McKool attorneys. Benefit from the bonus, benefit from the validation, and benefit from the transient second of hope earlier than December’s year-end chaos begins.
Comfortable Thanksgiving — and completely happy bonus season.
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