{"id":155056,"date":"2026-06-18T15:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/18\/could-associates-be-waiting-until-labor-day-for-biglaw-firms-to-match-milbank\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:17:14","slug":"could-associates-be-waiting-until-labor-day-for-biglaw-firms-to-match-milbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/18\/could-associates-be-waiting-until-labor-day-for-biglaw-firms-to-match-milbank\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Associates Be Waiting Until Labor Day For Biglaw Firms To Match Milbank?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Labor Day is when firms traditionally get back down to business. Right now, everyone is getting distracted with high school and college graduations, vacations, stuff like that. Once Labor Day rolls around, firms will say \u2018let\u2019s roll up our sleeves\u2019 and will slog it out until New Year\u2019s. They have a renewed focus on where they want to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Jeffrey Lowe, CenterPeak executive and Washington, D.C., market president, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning one of the reasons why he thinks the majority of Biglaw firms have yet to match the latest associate salary war that began with Milbank<\/a> and has since spread to more than a dozen Biglaw and elite boutique firms<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is 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 email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Could Associates Be Waiting Until Labor Day For Biglaw Firms To Match Milbank?<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Labor Day is when firms traditionally get back down to business. Right now, everyone is getting distracted with high school and college graduations, vacations, stuff like that. Once Labor Day rolls around, firms will say \u2018let\u2019s roll up our sleeves\u2019 and will slog it out until New Year\u2019s. They have a renewed focus on where they want to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Jeffrey Lowe, CenterPeak executive and Washington, D.C., market president, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning one of the reasons why he thinks the majority of Biglaw firms have yet to match the latest associate salary war that began with Milbank<\/a> and has since spread to more than a dozen Biglaw and elite boutique firms<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is 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 email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. Labor Day is when firms traditionally get back down to business. Right now, everyone is getting distracted with high school and college graduations, vacations, stuff like that. Once Labor Day rolls around, firms will say \u2018let\u2019s roll up our sleeves\u2019 and will slog it out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155057,"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-155056","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\/06\/Staci-Zaretsky-RZtQ1t.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155056","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=155056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}