{"id":156295,"date":"2026-07-10T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/10\/when-pay-is-equal-boutique-firms-have-the-edge\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:22:30","slug":"when-pay-is-equal-boutique-firms-have-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/10\/when-pay-is-equal-boutique-firms-have-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"When Pay Is Equal, Boutique Firms Have The Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

It took the salary away as a factor, so I could focus on \u200bthe other aspects of my career and where I wanted to be<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Emily Clarke<\/a>, an associate at Wilkinson Stekloff who joined the firm after a federal clerkship and a year at Milbank, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, concerning the fact that Wilkinson\u2019s salary scale was the same as what inspired her, in part, to join the boutique firm. As a salary war<\/a> unfolds in the upper echelons of legal profession, boutique firms are currently taking the lead over Biglaw firms, which may encourage more attorneys to make lateral moves.<\/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 When Pay Is Equal, Boutique Firms Have The Edge<\/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

It took the salary away as a factor, so I could focus on \u200bthe other aspects of my career and where I wanted to be<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Emily Clarke<\/a>, an associate at Wilkinson Stekloff who joined the firm after a federal clerkship and a year at Milbank, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, concerning the fact that Wilkinson\u2019s salary scale was the same as what inspired her, in part, to join the boutique firm. As a salary war<\/a> unfolds in the upper echelons of legal profession, boutique firms are currently taking the lead over Biglaw firms, which may encourage more attorneys to make lateral moves.<\/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 When Pay Is Equal, Boutique Firms Have The Edge<\/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. It took the salary away as a factor, so I could focus on \u200bthe other aspects of my career and where I wanted to be. \u2014\u00a0Emily Clarke, an associate at Wilkinson Stekloff who joined the firm after a federal clerkship and a year at Milbank, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156275,"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-156295","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\/07\/Staci-Zaretsky-KDrN0n.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156295","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=156295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}