{"id":147194,"date":"2026-03-26T14:51:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/26\/biglaws-fomo-talent-anxiety-now-comes-with-50k-signing-bonuses-for-1ls\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T14:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:51:48","slug":"biglaws-fomo-talent-anxiety-now-comes-with-50k-signing-bonuses-for-1ls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/26\/biglaws-fomo-talent-anxiety-now-comes-with-50k-signing-bonuses-for-1ls\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw\u2019s FOMO Talent Anxiety Now Comes With $50K Signing Bonuses For 1Ls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve talked to a few friends whose firms wanted to hold out, but they felt like they had to give in because they weren\u2019t getting the candidates they wanted and they were afraid of losing out to other firms. [The stipends are] a signing bonus wrapped up in public interest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 A Biglaw talent professional, in comments given to Law.com<\/a> under the condition of anonymity, concerning the public interest stipends<\/a> for 1L students who have been accepted into Biglaw firms\u2019 2L summer associate programs. At least 15 Am Law 100 firms have offered students amounts ranging from $25,000 to $50,000 as a way to retain talent.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her 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 Biglaw\u2019s FOMO Talent Anxiety Now Comes With $50K Signing Bonuses For 1Ls<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve talked to a few friends whose firms wanted to hold out, but they felt like they had to give in because they weren\u2019t getting the candidates they wanted and they were afraid of losing out to other firms. [The stipends are] a signing bonus wrapped up in public interest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 A Biglaw talent professional, in comments given to Law.com<\/a> under the condition of anonymity, concerning the public interest stipends<\/a> for 1L students who have been accepted into Biglaw firms\u2019 2L summer associate programs. At least 15 Am Law 100 firms have offered students amounts ranging from $25,000 to $50,000 as a way to retain talent.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her 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 Biglaw\u2019s FOMO Talent Anxiety Now Comes With $50K Signing Bonuses For 1Ls<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. I\u2019ve talked to a few friends whose firms wanted to hold out, but they felt like they had to give in because they weren\u2019t getting the candidates they wanted and they were afraid of losing out to other firms. [The stipends are] a signing bonus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147195,"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-147194","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\/2026\/03\/Staci-Zaretsky-AIWAK1.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147194","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=147194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}