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What we perceive is that the corporations which might be paying probably the most additionally typically give the very best bonuses, and there are causes for that. These are the corporations which might be actually competing with [Biglaw] for expertise, that’s why their salaries are the identical or reaching in direction of [Biglaw], and the bonuses are typically considerably larger 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 more moderen the place plaintiffs corporations have been going to [on campus interviews], particularly on the prime 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 yr. 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 Legislation Affiliation is at present conducting an anonymous survey to collect pay information from plaintiffs corporations, whereas Edelson has compiled his personal tiered list of beginning salaries at greater than a dozen of the most important plaintiffs corporations within the nation.
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