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Anonymous User
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Should I ask about/negotiate first-year benefit in deciding SA offers
Hi! I got a few offers for next summer. I feel typically people will get offers at the end of summer, so deciding which firm to summer pretty much equals which firm to join upon graduation. Given that, do people negotiate their class year bump/sign-on bonus, other benefits upon graduation while considering SA offers? It seems awkward because it is not certain that I will be given the permanent offer.
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Danger Zone
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Re: Should I ask about/negotiate first-year benefit in deciding SA offers
No, this is done after you receive the full time offer.
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RaceJudicata
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Re: Should I ask about/negotiate first-year benefit in deciding SA offers
What credentials do you have that make you think (any) firm will give you some preferential treatment? (Also, this is not meant to be snark, I'm genuinely curious what (if any) factors--aside from clerkships--would actually negotiate benefits/comp?
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Anastasia Dee Dualla
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Re: Should I ask about/negotiate first-year benefit in deciding SA offers
As a clarifying point; it's called lock step for a reason. There is no negotiating over benefits and salary when you start at a law firm in biglaw.Anonymous User wrote:Hi! I got a few offers for next summer. I feel typically people will get offers at the end of summer, so deciding which firm to summer pretty much equals which firm to join upon graduation. Given that, do people negotiate their class year bump/sign-on bonus, other benefits upon graduation while considering SA offers? It seems awkward because it is not certain that I will be given the permanent offer.
ETA: Not applicable to laterals.
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Danger Zone
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Re: Should I ask about/negotiate first-year benefit in deciding SA offers
That's not uniformly true.Anastasia Dee Dualla wrote:As a clarifying point; it's called lock step for a reason. There is no negotiating over benefits and salary when you start at a law firm in biglaw.Anonymous User wrote:Hi! I got a few offers for next summer. I feel typically people will get offers at the end of summer, so deciding which firm to summer pretty much equals which firm to join upon graduation. Given that, do people negotiate their class year bump/sign-on bonus, other benefits upon graduation while considering SA offers? It seems awkward because it is not certain that I will be given the permanent offer.
ETA: Not applicable to laterals.
Last edited by Danger Zone on Sat Jan 27, 2018 3:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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star fox
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Re: Should I ask about/negotiate first-year benefit in deciding SA offers
This is called: How to get your offer revoked
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