{"id":137676,"date":"2025-11-26T16:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/26\/bonus-season-begins-in-earnest\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:24:04","slug":"bonus-season-begins-in-earnest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/26\/bonus-season-begins-in-earnest\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonus Season Begins In Earnest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/11\/cravath-starts-biglaws-bonus-season-with-year-end-and-special-bonuses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bonus season is underway<\/a>, and Biglaw firms are lining up to reward associates for a year\u2019s worth of effort. The market scale \u2014 unless some firm breaks rank and crashes the party \u2014 tracks last year, which can be a bit anticlimactic, but with the economy possibly resting on the precipice of recession, this was probably all we could hope for. Also, we discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/11\/lindsey-halligan-officially-more-stupid-than-you-imagined\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsey Halligan\u2019s epic fail<\/a> in the James Comey case \u2014 and we recorded this <em>before<\/em> the judge tossed the case. Finally, Judge Jerry Smith decided to commit his unhinged conspiracy theories to paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/11\/judge-jerry-smiths-soros-fueled-tantrum-is-the-wildest-thing-youll-read-this-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a massive, doorstop of a dissent<\/a> in the Texas redistricting case. And we discuss Thanksgiving sides. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/11\/bonus-season-begins-in-earnest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bonus Season Begins In Earnest<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/11\/cravath-starts-biglaws-bonus-season-with-year-end-and-special-bonuses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bonus season is underway<\/a>, and Biglaw firms are lining up to reward associates for a year\u2019s worth of effort. The market scale \u2014 unless some firm breaks rank and crashes the party \u2014 tracks last year, which can be a bit anticlimactic, but with the economy possibly resting on the precipice of recession, this was probably all we could hope for. Also, we discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/11\/lindsey-halligan-officially-more-stupid-than-you-imagined\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsey Halligan\u2019s epic fail<\/a> in the James Comey case \u2014 and we recorded this <em>before<\/em> the judge tossed the case. Finally, Judge Jerry Smith decided to commit his unhinged conspiracy theories to paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/11\/judge-jerry-smiths-soros-fueled-tantrum-is-the-wildest-thing-youll-read-this-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a massive, doorstop of a dissent<\/a> in the Texas redistricting case. And we discuss Thanksgiving sides. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/11\/bonus-season-begins-in-earnest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bonus Season Begins In Earnest<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonus season is underway, and Biglaw firms are lining up to reward associates for a year\u2019s worth of effort. The market scale \u2014 unless some firm breaks rank and crashes the party \u2014 tracks last year, which can be a bit anticlimactic, but with the economy possibly resting on the precipice of recession, this was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-137676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137676","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=137676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}