{"id":160395,"date":"2026-08-13T16:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/13\/at-this-elite-litigation-boutique-its-eat-what-you-kill-and-associates-are-feasting\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:07:25","slug":"at-this-elite-litigation-boutique-its-eat-what-you-kill-and-associates-are-feasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/13\/at-this-elite-litigation-boutique-its-eat-what-you-kill-and-associates-are-feasting\/","title":{"rendered":"At This Elite Litigation Boutique, It\u2019s \u2018Eat What You Kill\u2019 \u2014 And Associates Are Feasting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

We have no debt and we have the philosophy of when we have excess capital we pay everyone, from the barista to the receptionist to the IT guy to the paralegals to the associates to the non-equity partners to the partners. The idea behind the kind of compensation system that we\u2019ve developed is very much eat what you kill.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> William T. Reid IV<\/a>, senior founding partner of Reid Collins & Tsai, in comments given to Bloomberg<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s recent bonus payouts. Associates at the firm have already received up to $170,000 in bonuses<\/a>, and Reid says the firm is set offer bonuses in all four quarters this year. \u201cI tried to create the firm that I would have desired to work at as a young lawyer, to get into court, get on my feet, and actually do the work that lawyers do,\u201d he said.<\/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 At This Elite Litigation Boutique, It\u2019s \u2018Eat What You Kill\u2019 \u2014 And Associates Are Feasting<\/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

We have no debt and we have the philosophy of when we have excess capital we pay everyone, from the barista to the receptionist to the IT guy to the paralegals to the associates to the non-equity partners to the partners. The idea behind the kind of compensation system that we\u2019ve developed is very much eat what you kill.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> William T. Reid IV<\/a>, senior founding partner of Reid Collins & Tsai, in comments given to Bloomberg<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s recent bonus payouts. Associates at the firm have already received up to $170,000 in bonuses<\/a>, and Reid says the firm is set offer bonuses in all four quarters this year. \u201cI tried to create the firm that I would have desired to work at as a young lawyer, to get into court, get on my feet, and actually do the work that lawyers do,\u201d he said.<\/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

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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. We have no debt and we have the philosophy of when we have excess capital we pay everyone, from the barista to the receptionist to the IT guy to the paralegals to the associates to the non-equity partners to the partners. The idea behind the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160396,"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-160395","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\/08\/Staci-Zaretsky-HO88Av.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160395","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=160395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}