Survey reports on the salaries of Washington lawyers

The Washingtonian magazine has released a salary survey issue, reporting on the salaries of all manner of professionals in the US capital, and including a section on lawyers and judges. Profits per partner at major Washington law firms Hogan Lovells: $1.21 million. WilmerHale: $1.16 million. Williams & Connolly: $1.18 million. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher: $1.91 million. Legal recruiters estimate that certain key partners at these firms are making a lot more – in the order of $3 million to $4 million annually. If they decided to leave their firms, competing bids to recruit them could reach the $5-million-to-$10-million range. First-year associates at top law firms Associates at WilmerHale, Hogan Lovells, Covington & Burling, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom make around $160,000 before bonuses. Summer Associates at top law firms Summer Associates are taking home more than $3,000 a week. The survey also reports on the kind of pay cuts taken by lawyers leaving private practice for the public sector, and the salaries of key public servants.

Survey reports on the salaries of Washington lawyers washingtonian.com Thu, Nov 11, 2010