{"id":139170,"date":"2025-12-16T19:27:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/16\/holidays-come-early-for-top-20-biglaw-firm\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:27:52","slug":"holidays-come-early-for-top-20-biglaw-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/16\/holidays-come-early-for-top-20-biglaw-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays Come Early For Top 20 Biglaw Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, Goodwin announced its bonus structure in early January. Not that there\u2019s anything necessarily wrong<\/em> about that \u2014 many firms don\u2019t pay out their bonuses until the new year, so there\u2019s nothing magic about hearing about it until January. But, like Clark Griswold and his pool, you just want to know<\/em> what you\u2019re getting before shelling out for the holidays, you know?<\/p>\n

Well, this year, the firm isn\u2019t leaving its team in suspense. The Top 20 Am Law firm, sitting on almost $2.5B in revenue, put out its bonus announcement and it\u2019s not just associates getting the good news.<\/p>\n

The associates are getting the market standard combination of annual bonus and belated Milbank summer bonus match (pending the associate meeting the requisite performance benchmarks, of course).<\/p>\n

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Bonuses will show up in the January 30 checks. Bonus memos announcing the same chart also went out to the London & Cambridge, Luxembourg, Singapore, and Hong Kong associates.<\/p>\n

But the news doesn\u2019t end with the associates. As an industry, counsel consistently get left in the dark around bonus time. The perils of being off-grid. Goodwin is offering more transparency to the counsel cohort, informing them that they will be eligible for a $25,000 special bonus atop their individualized bonus deals. And it doesn\u2019t stop there, with Department and Discovery Attorneys eligible for a $6,000 special bonus.<\/p>\n

Beyond the lawyers, Goodwin is paying bonuses to the Global Operations Team at all levels \u2014 from secretaries and assistants to directors and chiefs. These bonuses are individualized, but the team knows something is appearing in their stockings.<\/p>\n

A good day at Goodwin.<\/p>\n

Please help us help you when it comes to salary news at other firms. As soon as your firm\u2019s memo comes out, please\u00a0email it to us<\/a>\u00a0(subject line: \u201c[Firm Name] Salary\u201d) or text us (646-820-8477). Please include the memo if available. You can take a photo of the memo and send it via text or email if you don\u2019t want to forward the original PDF or Word file.<\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Holidays Come Early For Top 20 Biglaw Firm<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last year, Goodwin announced its bonus structure in early January. Not that there\u2019s anything necessarily wrong<\/em> about that \u2014 many firms don\u2019t pay out their bonuses until the new year, so there\u2019s nothing magic about hearing about it until January. But, like Clark Griswold and his pool, you just want to know<\/em> what you\u2019re getting before shelling out for the holidays, you know?<\/p>\n

Well, this year, the firm isn\u2019t leaving its team in suspense. The Top 20 Am Law firm, sitting on almost $2.5B in revenue, put out its bonus announcement and it\u2019s not just associates getting the good news.<\/p>\n

The associates are getting the market standard combination of annual bonus and belated Milbank summer bonus match (pending the associate meeting the requisite performance benchmarks, of course).<\/p>\n

\"\"
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bonuses will show up in the January 30 checks. Bonus memos announcing the same chart also went out to the London & Cambridge, Luxembourg, Singapore, and Hong Kong associates.<\/p>\n

But the news doesn\u2019t end with the associates. As an industry, counsel consistently get left in the dark around bonus time. The perils of being off-grid. Goodwin is offering more transparency to the counsel cohort, informing them that they will be eligible for a $25,000 special bonus atop their individualized bonus deals. And it doesn\u2019t stop there, with Department and Discovery Attorneys eligible for a $6,000 special bonus.<\/p>\n

Beyond the lawyers, Goodwin is paying bonuses to the Global Operations Team at all levels \u2014 from secretaries and assistants to directors and chiefs. These bonuses are individualized, but the team knows something is appearing in their stockings.<\/p>\n

A good day at Goodwin.<\/p>\n

Please help us help you when it comes to salary news at other firms. As soon as your firm\u2019s memo comes out, please\u00a0email it to us<\/a>\u00a0(subject line: \u201c[Firm Name] Salary\u201d) or text us (646-820-8477). Please include the memo if available. You can take a photo of the memo and send it via text or email if you don\u2019t want to forward the original PDF or Word file.<\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Last year, Goodwin announced its bonus structure in early January. Not that there\u2019s anything necessarily wrong about that \u2014 many firms don\u2019t pay out their bonuses until the new year, so there\u2019s nothing magic about hearing about it until January. But, like Clark Griswold and his pool, you just want to know what you\u2019re getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139168,"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-139170","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\/12\/Headshot-300x200-da6tIv.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139170","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=139170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}