{"id":130420,"date":"2025-08-13T14:29:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/13\/missing-biglaws-summer-bonus-matches\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T14:29:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:29:38","slug":"missing-biglaws-summer-bonus-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/13\/missing-biglaws-summer-bonus-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing: Biglaw\u2019s Summer Bonus Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milbank delighted with<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/milbank-issues-summer-bonuses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0special summer bonuses<\/a>, ranging from $6-25 thousand, for associates. And that\u2019s great for them! But where are all the matches? We have a theory on when associates at other firms will be able to cash in.<\/p>\n<p>There was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/congress-just-deleted-habeas-corpus-from-the-constitution-on-its-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">some fishiness<\/a>\u00a0(now resolved) with the constitution on Congress\u2019s website. Which, honestly, should be more shocking than it is.<\/p>\n<p>Biglaw partner lateral moves are all the rage, with some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/private-equity-partners-left-out-of-biglaws-lateral-move-mania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">major moves<\/a>\u00a0this summer. But\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/top-biglaw-firm-poaches-40-lawyers-from-competitor-in-latest-group-lateral-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">not everyone<\/a>\u00a0is benefitting from the hotness of the lateral market \u2014 all because of a little thing called due diligence.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/missing-biglaws-summer-bonus-matches\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missing: Biglaw\u2019s Summer Bonus Matches<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/01\/money-question-mark-value-valuation-300x169-300x169.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Milbank delighted with<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/milbank-issues-summer-bonuses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0special summer bonuses<\/a>, ranging from $6-25 thousand, for associates. And that\u2019s great for them! But where are all the matches? We have a theory on when associates at other firms will be able to cash in.<\/p>\n<p>There was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/congress-just-deleted-habeas-corpus-from-the-constitution-on-its-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">some fishiness<\/a>\u00a0(now resolved) with the constitution on Congress\u2019s website. Which, honestly, should be more shocking than it is.<\/p>\n<p>Biglaw partner lateral moves are all the rage, with some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/private-equity-partners-left-out-of-biglaws-lateral-move-mania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">major moves<\/a>\u00a0this summer. But\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/top-biglaw-firm-poaches-40-lawyers-from-competitor-in-latest-group-lateral-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">not everyone<\/a>\u00a0is benefitting from the hotness of the lateral market \u2014 all because of a little thing called due diligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milbank delighted with\u00a0special summer bonuses, ranging from $6-25 thousand, for associates. And that\u2019s great for them! But where are all the matches? We have a theory on when associates at other firms will be able to cash in. There was\u00a0some fishiness\u00a0(now resolved) with the constitution on Congress\u2019s website. Which, honestly, should be more shocking than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130421,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/money-question-mark-value-valuation-300x169-g1UixY.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130420","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}