{"id":139211,"date":"2025-12-17T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/17\/biglaw-firm-rewards-extra-work-with-above-market-bonuses\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:08:09","slug":"biglaw-firm-rewards-extra-work-with-above-market-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/17\/biglaw-firm-rewards-extra-work-with-above-market-bonuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw Firm Rewards Extra Work With Above Market Bonuses!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes extra money comes with extra work. Foley & Lardner is paying their associates handsomely \u2014 $25k above market in some cases \u2014 but you\u2019ve got to hit the 2200 hour mark for that extra compensation. 2100 gets you market value and 2000 or below gets you a push to do better next year. While there\u2019s no questioning that the firm is raking in a large amount of money, $1,275,570,000 gross revenue in 2024 according to Am Law 100<\/a>, the firm\u2019s relatively high headcount could explain why the hours threshold shows such stark differences in pay.<\/p>\n

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To the hard workers at Foley & Lardner, enjoy the money! If you\u2019re feeling festive, set aside some of that cash to buy a scent that reminds you of the holiday season<\/a>. Bonuses are scheduled to be paid by the end of January 2026. <\/p>\n

We like hearing about bonuses almost as much as you enjoy spending them. As soon as your firm\u2019s memo comes out, please\u00a0email it to us<\/a> (subject line: \u201c[Firm Name] Bonus\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

And if you\u2019d like to sign up for ATL\u2019s Salary & Bonus Alerts, please scroll down and enter your email address in the box below this post. If you previously signed up for the bonus alerts, you don\u2019t need to do anything. You\u2019ll receive an email notification within minutes of each bonus announcement that we publish.<\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Biglaw Firm Rewards Extra Work With Above Market Bonuses!<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sometimes extra money comes with extra work. Foley & Lardner is paying their associates handsomely \u2014 $25k above market in some cases \u2014 but you\u2019ve got to hit the 2200 hour mark for that extra compensation. 2100 gets you market value and 2000 or below gets you a push to do better next year. While there\u2019s no questioning that the firm is raking in a large amount of money, $1,275,570,000 gross revenue in 2024 according to Am Law 100<\/a>, the firm\u2019s relatively high headcount could explain why the hours threshold shows such stark differences in pay.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the scale:<\/p>\n

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To the hard workers at Foley & Lardner, enjoy the money! If you\u2019re feeling festive, set aside some of that cash to buy a scent that reminds you of the holiday season<\/a>. Bonuses are scheduled to be paid by the end of January 2026. <\/p>\n

We like hearing about bonuses almost as much as you enjoy spending them. As soon as your firm\u2019s memo comes out, please\u00a0email it to us<\/a> (subject line: \u201c[Firm Name] Bonus\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

And if you\u2019d like to sign up for ATL\u2019s Salary & Bonus Alerts, please scroll down and enter your email address in the box below this post. If you previously signed up for the bonus alerts, you don\u2019t need to do anything. You\u2019ll receive an email notification within minutes of each bonus announcement that we publish.<\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sometimes extra money comes with extra work. Foley & Lardner is paying their associates handsomely \u2014 $25k above market in some cases \u2014 but you\u2019ve got to hit the 2200 hour mark for that extra compensation. 2100 gets you market value and 2000 or below gets you a push to do better next year. While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139212,"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-139211","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\/Chris-Williams-2025-CUj92n.jpg?fit=512%2C288&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139211","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=139211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}