{"id":128288,"date":"2025-07-25T07:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/25\/can-you-make-biglaw-money-at-a-plaintiffs-firm\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T07:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:03:12","slug":"can-you-make-biglaw-money-at-a-plaintiffs-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/25\/can-you-make-biglaw-money-at-a-plaintiffs-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Make Biglaw Money At A Plaintiffs Firm?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

What we understand is that the firms that are paying the most also often give the highest bonuses, and there are reasons for that. Those are the firms that are really competing with [Biglaw] for talent, that\u2019s why their salaries are the same or reaching towards [Biglaw], and the bonuses tend to be significantly higher than in [Biglaw].<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Jay Edelson<\/a>, founder of plaintiffs firm Edelson PC, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning compensation transparency at plaintiffs firms. \u201cIt\u2019s only been more recent where plaintiffs firms have been going to [on campus interviews], especially at the top schools, and part of that was that the career services department didn\u2019t really support plaintiffs work,\u201d Edelson continued. \u201cWhen we started going there years ago, we\u2019ve been going for about 15 years, we had to explain that no, we don\u2019t pay $30,000 a year. That\u2019s just not how it works, but that\u2019s the messaging they gave to their students because frankly they just didn\u2019t know.\u201d The National Plaintiffs Law Association is currently conducting an\u00a0anonymous survey<\/a>\u00a0to gather pay data from plaintiffs firms, while Edelson has compiled his own tiered list<\/a>\u00a0of starting salaries at more than a dozen of the largest plaintiffs firms in the country.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Can You Make Biglaw Money At A Plaintiffs Firm?<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

What we understand is that the firms that are paying the most also often give the highest bonuses, and there are reasons for that. Those are the firms that are really competing with [Biglaw] for talent, that\u2019s why their salaries are the same or reaching towards [Biglaw], and the bonuses tend to be significantly higher than in [Biglaw].<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Jay Edelson<\/a>, founder of plaintiffs firm Edelson PC, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning compensation transparency at plaintiffs firms. \u201cIt\u2019s only been more recent where plaintiffs firms have been going to [on campus interviews], especially at the top schools, and part of that was that the career services department didn\u2019t really support plaintiffs work,\u201d Edelson continued. \u201cWhen we started going there years ago, we\u2019ve been going for about 15 years, we had to explain that no, we don\u2019t pay $30,000 a year. That\u2019s just not how it works, but that\u2019s the messaging they gave to their students because frankly they just didn\u2019t know.\u201d The National Plaintiffs Law Association is currently conducting an\u00a0anonymous survey<\/a>\u00a0to gather pay data from plaintiffs firms, while Edelson has compiled his own tiered list<\/a>\u00a0of starting salaries at more than a dozen of the largest plaintiffs firms in the country.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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