{"id":100653,"date":"2025-01-16T14:02:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/16\/counsel-often-wind-up-in-no-mans-or-womans-land-when-it-comes-to-compensation\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:02:33","slug":"counsel-often-wind-up-in-no-mans-or-womans-land-when-it-comes-to-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/16\/counsel-often-wind-up-in-no-mans-or-womans-land-when-it-comes-to-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Counsel Often Wind Up In \u2018No Man\u2019s Or Woman\u2019s Land\u2019 When It Comes To Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Counsel keep getting left out of the game when it comes to lockstep raises and bonuses.
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You have associates making almost $500,000, so in a sense, [counsel] get squeezed by firms because the firms feel like, \u2018What options do we have?\u2019 Generally speaking, they\u2019re less likely to have business than someone who has a partner designation, so that makes their ability to move more challenging. They\u2019re more senior so they can\u2019t slot into the associate world at all. So it has to be a firm looking for someone with their particular expertise, and it\u2019s just gotten to be more challenging as the years have gone by.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jeff Lowe, senior managing partner and market president for CenterPeak, a Washington, D.C., consulting firm, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, on the \u201cno man\u2019s or no woman\u2019s land\u201d counsel often find themselves when it comes to their compensation in comparison to associates working at firms with lockstep pay models.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Counsel keep getting left out of the game when it comes to lockstep raises and bonuses. The post Counsel Often Wind Up In \u2018No Man\u2019s Or Woman\u2019s Land\u2019 When It Comes To Compensation appeared first on Above the Law. Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. You have associates making almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":100654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law","category-legal_matters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/budget-belt-tightening-cheap-cheapness-Z9lJ39.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}