2015 6th Year Salaries and Bonuses of the Top Law Firms

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Summary: Here are the 6th year salaries and bonuses of the top law firms in the United States.

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2015 Summer Associate Salaries of the Top Law Firms

Firm Name	Associate Salaries	Base Salary	Associate Bonuses
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP	$165,000-$250,000	N/A	N/A
Allen & Overy LLP	$250,000	New York, NY: $250,000	N/A
Alston & Bird LLP	$170,000-$225,000	N/A	N/A
Arnold & Porter LLP	$160,000-$225,000	All U.S. offices: $250,000	$20,000-$60,000
Baker & McKenzie	$145,000-$250,000	N/A	N/A
Baker Botts L.L.P.	$145,000-$200,000	N/A	N/A
Baker Hostetler LLP	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bingham McCutchen LLP	$225,000-$250,000	Firmwide: $250,000	$40,000-$70,000
Bryan Cave LLP	$220,000	N/A	N/A
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP	$250,000	New York, Washington, DC and North Carolina offices: $250,000	N/A
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP	$250,000	New York, NY: $250,000	$40,000
Chadbourne & Parke LLP	$230,000-$250,000	Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Washington, DC: $250,000	N/A
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP	$250,000	N/A	$40,000
Clifford Chance LLP	$250,000	New York, NY: $250,000	$40,000
Cooley Godward Kronish LLP	$195,000-$225,000	All Offices: $250,000	N/A
Covington & Burling	$225,000-$250,000	U.S. Offices: $250,000	N/A
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP	$250,000	All Offices: $250,000	$40,000
Crowell & Moring LLP	N/A	N/A	N/A
Davis Polk & Wardwell	$250,000	All US Offices: $250,000	$40,000
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP	$250,000	US Offices: $250,000	$40,000
Dechert LLP	$190,000-$250,000	Austin, TX; Boston, MA; California offices; Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; Hartford, CT; New York, NY; Washington, DC: $250,000 Philadelphia, PA and Princeton, NJ : $190,000	N/A
Dickstein Shapiro LLP	N/A	DC, NY, CA Offices: $250,000	N/A
DLA Piper	$148,000-$250,000	N/A	N/A
Dorsey & Whitney LLP	$80,000-$210,000	N/A	N/A
Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP	N/A	N/A	N/A
Fenwick & West LLP	N/A	N/A	N/A
Fish & Richardson P.C.	$180,000-$250,000	N/A	N/A
Foley & Lardner LLP	$110,000-$225,000	N/A	N/A
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer	$250,000	New York, NY; Washington, DC: $250,000	N/A
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP	$250,000	New York, NY and Washington, DC: $250,000	N/A
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.	$130,000-$225,000	N/A	N/A
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP	$250,000	All Offices: $250,000	N/A
Goodwin Procter LLP	$250,000	All Offices: $250,000	$40,000
Greenberg Traurig, LLP	$112,000-$250,000	N/A	N/A
Hogan Lovells	$250,000	Baltimore; California offices; Denver; Houston; McLean, VA; New York; Philadelphia; Washington DC: $250,000	N/A
Holland & Knight LLP	$145,000-$185,000	N/A	N/A
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP	$210,000-$230,000	New York, NY: $240,000	N/A
Hunton & Williams LLP	$170,000-$230,000	N/A	N/A
Irell & Manella LLP	N/A	Los Angeles, CA: $250,000	N/A
Jackson Lewis LLP	$124,000	N/A	N/A
Jenner & Block LLP	N/A	N/A	N/A
Jones Day	N/A	N/A	N/A
K&L Gates	$127,000-$160,000	N/A	N/A
Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP	N/A	All Offices: $250,000	N/A
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP	$225,000-$250,000	Austin, TX; Chicago, IL; Houston, TX; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY & Washington, DC: $250,000	N/A
Kaye Scholer LLP	$225,000-$250,000	N/A	$40,000
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP	N/A	N/A	N/A
King & Spalding LLP	$170,000-$180,000	N/A	N/A
Kirkland & Ellis LLP	$250,000	N/A	$40,000
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP	N/A	N/A	N/A
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP	$250,000	New York, NY: $250,000	N/A
Latham & Watkins LLP	$250,000	N/A	$40,000-$91,000
Linklaters LLP	N/A	New York, NY: $250,000	N/A
Manatt Phelps & Phillips	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mayer Brown LLP	$200,000-$250,000	Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA; Washington, DC; Houston, TX: $250,000	N/A
McDermott, Will & Emery	$250,000	N/A	N/A
McGuireWoods LLP	N/A	N/A	N/A
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP	$250,000	New York: $250,000	$40,000
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP	$250,000	N/A	N/A
Morrison & Foerster LLP	$230,000-$250,000	All U.S. offices and U.S. practice attorneys in international offices (class of 2007): $250,000	$40,000
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP	N/A	All Offices: $250,000	N/A
Nixon Peabody LLP	N/A	N/A	N/A
O'Melveny & Myers LLP	$250,000	All Offices: $250,000	N/A
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP	$195,000-$250,000	N/A	$36,000-$50,000
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP	N/A	N/A	N/A
Patton Boggs LLP	$175,000-$250,000	N/A	N/A
Paul Hastings LLP	$200,000-$250,000	All domestic offices except Atlanta: $250,000	N/A
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison	$250,000	New York, NY; Washington, DC: $250,000	$40,000
Perkins Coie LLP	$112,500-$115,000	N/A	N/A
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP	$185,000-$195,000	Firmwide: $250,000	N/A
Proskauer Rose LLP	$160,000-$250,000	New York, NY; Boston, MA; Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL; Washington, DC: $250,000 Boca Raton, FL : $175,000 Newark, NJ : $166,000-$175,000 New Orleans, LA: $140,000	N/A
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP	$250,000	All Offices: $250,000	$30,000-$50,000
Ropes & Gray LLP	$250,000	N/A	N/A
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP	$250,000	$250,000	N/A
Shearman & Sterling LLP	$250,000	New York, NY: $250,000	$40,000
Sidley Austin LLP	$225,000-$250,000	All Offices: $250,000	N/A
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP	$250,000	All U.S. Offices: $250,000	$40,000
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP	$250,000	All U.S. Offices: $250,000	$40,000
SNR Denton (Now Dentons)	$225,000-$250,000	N/A	N/A
Squire Sanders	N/A	N/A	N/A
Steptoe & Johnson LLP	$215,000-$225,000	Washington, DC: $225,000	N/A
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP	$250,000	New York, NY: $250,000	N/A
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP	$250,000	All US Offices: $250,000	$40,000
Venable LLP	N/A	N/A	N/A
Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.	$250,000	All US. Offices: $250,000	$40,000
Wachtell	N/A	N/A	N/A
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP	$250,000	All Offices: $250,000	$40,000
White & Case LLP	$205,000-$250,000	New York, NY: $250,000	$40,000
Williams & Connolly LLP	$200,000	Washington, DC: $270,000	N/A
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP	$250,000	New York, NY: $250,000	N/A
WilmerHale	N/A	N/A	N/A
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati	$200,000-$215,000	All Offices: $250,000	N/A
Winston & Strawn LLP	$195,000-$250,000	$250,000	N/A

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