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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2018 11:04 pm
What do y'all think, Greenberg or White and Case?
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Weil should be in the JD/MWE bucket. It's tiny now.Anonymous User wrote:White & Case > Weil/GT/Holland & Knight > JD/MWE (any market paying firm with a MIA office) > Akerman/Shutts Bowen/Gunster/Bilzin > the rest.
There are obviously boutiques, but I focused on full-service
Who the hell wants to be a biglaw partner anyway?Anonymous User wrote:Weil should be in the JD/MWE bucket. It's tiny now.Anonymous User wrote:White & Case > Weil/GT/Holland & Knight > JD/MWE (any market paying firm with a MIA office) > Akerman/Shutts Bowen/Gunster/Bilzin > the rest.
There are obviously boutiques, but I focused on full-service
W&C is very debatable on the basis of partnership potential in Miami.
I’d argue that GT and Akerman have better FL roots than H&K. Also, the associate salaries at the three are all comparable. They all max out around the low 200,000 range.Anonymous User wrote:Who the hell wants to be a biglaw partner anyway?Anonymous User wrote:Weil should be in the JD/MWE bucket. It's tiny now.Anonymous User wrote:White & Case > Weil/GT/Holland & Knight > JD/MWE (any market paying firm with a MIA office) > Akerman/Shutts Bowen/Gunster/Bilzin > the rest.
There are obviously boutiques, but I focused on full-service
W&C is very debatable on the basis of partnership potential in Miami.
W&C is the best gig if you want to do biglaw for a set amount of years and get paid the most for the best experience (other market paying firm offices are too small, except maybe Boies). If you want to make a career at one firm and become partner, H&K is probably the best gig, especially with its deep FL roots. I don’t think Greenberg is even in the conversation, folks there are miserable, pay sucks (they even write articles about it!), and being a partner seems like a worse deal than just being a W&C 8th year.
A senior associate at GT/Akerman/H&K in Miami is making low $200k? What about with bonuses?Anonymous User wrote:I’d argue that GT and Akerman have better FL roots than H&K. Also, the associate salaries at the three are all comparable. They all max out around the low 200,000 range.
But yes, GT sounds like a miserable place.
I’ve heard of bonuses as high as 50k (so maybe 50% of market max?). Probably lower at Akerman than at Holland & Knight at GT because of the differences in revenue. So I’d assume all-in compensation max at around 250-275 at these firms.Anonymous User wrote:A senior associate at GT/Akerman/H&K in Miami is making low $200k? What about with bonuses?Anonymous User wrote:I’d argue that GT and Akerman have better FL roots than H&K. Also, the associate salaries at the three are all comparable. They all max out around the low 200,000 range.
But yes, GT sounds like a miserable place.
GT and Akerman have deep FL roots, but H&K does too -- it was founded in Lakeland in 1968. But I think what makes H&K the best Florida-based gig with a partnership track is that it has much more of a national presence/ceiling for advancement than GT or Akerman. Akerman is basically nothing outside of FL.Anonymous User wrote:I’d argue that GT and Akerman have better FL roots than H&K. Also, the associate salaries at the three are all comparable. They all max out around the low 200,000 range.Anonymous User wrote:Who the hell wants to be a biglaw partner anyway?Anonymous User wrote:Weil should be in the JD/MWE bucket. It's tiny now.Anonymous User wrote:White & Case > Weil/GT/Holland & Knight > JD/MWE (any market paying firm with a MIA office) > Akerman/Shutts Bowen/Gunster/Bilzin > the rest.
There are obviously boutiques, but I focused on full-service
W&C is very debatable on the basis of partnership potential in Miami.
W&C is the best gig if you want to do biglaw for a set amount of years and get paid the most for the best experience (other market paying firm offices are too small, except maybe Boies). If you want to make a career at one firm and become partner, H&K is probably the best gig, especially with its deep FL roots. I don’t think Greenberg is even in the conversation, folks there are miserable, pay sucks (they even write articles about it!), and being a partner seems like a worse deal than just being a W&C 8th year.
But yes, GT sounds like a miserable place.
Cicero76 wrote:GT and Akerman have deep FL roots, but H&K does too -- it was founded in Lakeland in 1968. But I think what makes H&K the best Florida-based gig with a partnership track is that it has much more of a national presence/ceiling for advancement than GT or Akerman. Akerman is basically nothing outside of FL.Anonymous User wrote:I’d argue that GT and Akerman have better FL roots than H&K. Also, the associate salaries at the three are all comparable. They all max out around the low 200,000 range.Anonymous User wrote:Who the hell wants to be a biglaw partner anyway?Anonymous User wrote:Weil should be in the JD/MWE bucket. It's tiny now.Anonymous User wrote:White & Case > Weil/GT/Holland & Knight > JD/MWE (any market paying firm with a MIA office) > Akerman/Shutts Bowen/Gunster/Bilzin > the rest.
There are obviously boutiques, but I focused on full-service
W&C is very debatable on the basis of partnership potential in Miami.
W&C is the best gig if you want to do biglaw for a set amount of years and get paid the most for the best experience (other market paying firm offices are too small, except maybe Boies). If you want to make a career at one firm and become partner, H&K is probably the best gig, especially with its deep FL roots. I don’t think Greenberg is even in the conversation, folks there are miserable, pay sucks (they even write articles about it!), and being a partner seems like a worse deal than just being a W&C 8th year.
But yes, GT sounds like a miserable place.
Pay aside, GT is more toxic than W&C?Anonymous User wrote:Cicero76 wrote:GT and Akerman have deep FL roots, but H&K does too -- it was founded in Lakeland in 1968. But I think what makes H&K the best Florida-based gig with a partnership track is that it has much more of a national presence/ceiling for advancement than GT or Akerman. Akerman is basically nothing outside of FL.Anonymous User wrote:I’d argue that GT and Akerman have better FL roots than H&K. Also, the associate salaries at the three are all comparable. They all max out around the low 200,000 range.Anonymous User wrote:Who the hell wants to be a biglaw partner anyway?Anonymous User wrote:Weil should be in the JD/MWE bucket. It's tiny now.Anonymous User wrote:White & Case > Weil/GT/Holland & Knight > JD/MWE (any market paying firm with a MIA office) > Akerman/Shutts Bowen/Gunster/Bilzin > the rest.
There are obviously boutiques, but I focused on full-service
W&C is very debatable on the basis of partnership potential in Miami.
W&C is the best gig if you want to do biglaw for a set amount of years and get paid the most for the best experience (other market paying firm offices are too small, except maybe Boies). If you want to make a career at one firm and become partner, H&K is probably the best gig, especially with its deep FL roots. I don’t think Greenberg is even in the conversation, folks there are miserable, pay sucks (they even write articles about it!), and being a partner seems like a worse deal than just being a W&C 8th year.
But yes, GT sounds like a miserable place.
That’s probably accurate. HK is the happy medium. GT probably has more reach nationally than HK, but no one really wants to work there. Most of the offices seem toxic. Akerman probably has an easiest partnership track and lifestyle, but it’s still very unknown outside of South Florida.
The FL firms pay these associates the same. And the firms are willing to hire associates from top firms, but they don’t have to go out of their way to find them. A lot of my firm’s laterals are FL-born and raised associates who went to t6 that worked at V20 firms before. The associates don’t make more than me. I think some received sizable bonuses, though.Anonymous User wrote:Does anyone have a sense of (1) whether these firms are eager/willing to hire associates from top firms and (2) how laterals are compensated (i.e., are they paid on the FL scale or compensated more generously)? Specifically interested in the FL-based firms such as GT and HK.
LolAnonymous User wrote:Boies and Hogan, then the rest
Is there a list of these NY-market-paying firms anywhere?Anonymous User wrote:If the firm doesn't pay NY, it's a TTT. Doesn't matter how big it is. Enough firms pay NY in Miami that those that don't are trash.
This is actually not true at all. In fact, the only firms that I can think of that are paying current NY market are tiny satellite outposts in Miami which don't compete with the bigger players like Greenberg Traurig, White & Case, and Holland & Knight.Anonymous User wrote:If the firm doesn't pay NY, it's a TTT. Doesn't matter how big it is. Enough firms pay NY in Miami that those that don't are trash.
W&C pays NY. And GT/HK are TTT. Any firm, anywhere, that does blackbox/non-standardized comp is a TTT.uncle_rico wrote:This is actually not true at all. In fact, the only firms that I can think of that are paying current NY market are tiny satellite outposts in Miami which don't compete with the bigger players like Greenberg Traurig, White & Case, and Holland & Knight.Anonymous User wrote:If the firm doesn't pay NY, it's a TTT. Doesn't matter how big it is. Enough firms pay NY in Miami that those that don't are trash.
Once again, this is false. White & Case pays $183k (not NY base) and the raises are compressed. Hogan and Hughes Hubbard didn't increase Miami to 190k. Weil and Morgan Lewis have 16 (75% litigation) and 21 attorneys respectively, so they aren't even relevant in the market since they are satellites. I honestly don't know about Boies since there's no published information but they're an outlier to begin with since they're a litigation boutique and have an entirely different bonus structure.Anonymous User wrote:W&C pays NY. And GT/HK are TTT. Any firm, anywhere, that does blackbox/non-standardized comp is a TTT.uncle_rico wrote:This is actually not true at all. In fact, the only firms that I can think of that are paying current NY market are tiny satellite outposts in Miami which don't compete with the bigger players like Greenberg Traurig, White & Case, and Holland & Knight.Anonymous User wrote:If the firm doesn't pay NY, it's a TTT. Doesn't matter how big it is. Enough firms pay NY in Miami that those that don't are trash.
AFAIK, at least Hogan, W&C, Morgan Lewis, Hughes Hubbard, McDermott, Boies, and Weil pay NY. And the difference between NY and whatever scraps you get from GT is 50-100K a year.
I'm guessing this is what the anonymous option is really for. Oh, and this is also why people think biglaw lawyers are d-bags. Someone who is making over 160K is making "scraps," that's a sad outlook.Anonymous User wrote:W&C pays NY. And GT/HK are TTT. Any firm, anywhere, that does blackbox/non-standardized comp is a TTT.uncle_rico wrote:This is actually not true at all. In fact, the only firms that I can think of that are paying current NY market are tiny satellite outposts in Miami which don't compete with the bigger players like Greenberg Traurig, White & Case, and Holland & Knight.Anonymous User wrote:If the firm doesn't pay NY, it's a TTT. Doesn't matter how big it is. Enough firms pay NY in Miami that those that don't are trash.
AFAIK, at least Hogan, W&C, Morgan Lewis, Hughes Hubbard, McDermott, Boies, and Weil pay NY. And the difference between NY and whatever scraps you get from GT is 50-100K a year.