You are currently browsing the monthly archive for February 2007.
Pictures from this year’s Tour of California.
Intonation. A typographic exposition of Pulp Fiction, by Jarratt Moody. [.mov, contains profanity, but you knew that already, didn’t you]
Moonshine Patriot. George Washington, whiskey baron.
So this is the post where I apologize for the lack of updates and explain that I’ve been very busy with the baby and the job and clients getting raided by the government, &c., &c. Sorry ’bout that.
We know by now that the new market rate for starting associates in NYC and DC is $160,000. At least some of the East Coast firms have raised starting salaries to $160,000 in their Texas offices as well, including Fish & Richardson, Skadden Arps, and Weil Gotshal. Others have partially matched the NYC raises in Texas, including Gibson Dunn, Patton Boggs, DLA Piper, and Jenner & Block, all paying $145,000 to new Texas associates—a $10k raise.
Will Texas firms be next? Probably not. Last year, the Texas firms did not move until after the Chicago and Atlanta firms raised. The good news, though, is that Jones Day, Alston & Bird, and King & Spalding have all raised salaries in their Atlanta offices. Although K&S has a Houston office, word on the street is that K&S considers salaries for associates in each of its offices independently, and we should not expect K&S to be a first mover in the Texas market. Alas.