{"id":122738,"date":"2025-06-11T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/11\/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-bonuses\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T19:03:08","slug":"so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/11\/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-bonuses\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long And Thanks For All The Bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Weiss fancied itself clever when it offered Trump pro bono payola in exchange for dropping an illegal executive order. Instead, it keeps hemorrhaging senior lawyers<\/a> with more departing to join the recent rainmaker spinoff<\/a> and associates reportedly high on the new firm\u2019s wish list. While litigators are largely driving defections from surrender firms, at what point does a hollowed out litigation department start to impact the firm as a whole? Harvard Law Review found itself harassed by the government and it looks like the reason might be a snitch burrowed into the White House<\/a>. And the one-track partnership model took more hits with Debevoise<\/a> agreeing adding a nonequity tier and Ropes & Gray<\/a> considering following suit.<\/p>\n

[An earlier version of this description said both firms had already greenlit a non-equity tier] <\/em><\/p>\n

The post So Long And Thanks For All The Bonuses<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Paul Weiss fancied itself clever when it offered Trump pro bono payola in exchange for dropping an illegal executive order. Instead, it keeps hemorrhaging senior lawyers<\/a> with more departing to join the recent rainmaker spinoff<\/a> and associates reportedly high on the new firm\u2019s wish list. While litigators are largely driving defections from surrender firms, at what point does a hollowed out litigation department start to impact the firm as a whole? Harvard Law Review found itself harassed by the government and it looks like the reason might be a snitch burrowed into the White House<\/a>. And the one-track partnership model took more hits with Ropes & Gray<\/a> and Debevoise<\/a> agreeing to add nonequity tiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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