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Looking for any anectodotal evidence of partner salaries at these top regional biglaw firms. Mostly thinking of Midwest regional shops that are midlaw—honigman, Goldberg kohn etc.

I know that their senior associates are making way less than big law, but are their equity partners making 250k? 500k? 800k?

I know this is highly variable which is why I’m looking for anecdotes and not hard facts—-I don’t think reliable big data on these shops exist.

Just one data point, but at the top midlaw firm I’m most familiar with in a smaller Midwestern market, the scale goes from first-year partner equivalents (~7th-8th years) who make ~250k to rainmakers who can hit ~1m. Your salary depends on hours, billing rate, and business generation. I assume salaries at a Chicago firm like Goldberg Kohn would be significantly higher.

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Tue Feb 09, 2021 2:38 pm

Just one data point, but at the top midlaw firm I’m most familiar with in a smaller Midwestern market, the scale goes from first-year partner equivalents (~7th-8th years) who make ~250k to rainmakers who can hit ~1m. Your salary depends on hours, billing rate, and business generation. I assume salaries at a Chicago firm like Goldberg Kohn would be significantly higher.

Goldberg Kohn is a bit of a lifestyle firm as far as Chicago biglaw goes. Would not surprise me if their non-equity partners make like $300-350k and their equity partners make $600-900k with a few outliers.

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Tue Feb 09, 2021 4:45 pm

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 09, 2021 2:38 pm

Just one data point, but at the top midlaw firm I’m most familiar with in a smaller Midwestern market, the scale goes from first-year partner equivalents (~7th-8th years) who make ~250k to rainmakers who can hit ~1m. Your salary depends on hours, billing rate, and business generation. I assume salaries at a Chicago firm like Goldberg Kohn would be significantly higher.

Goldberg Kohn is a bit of a lifestyle firm as far as Chicago biglaw goes. Would not surprise me if their non-equity partners make like $300-350k and their equity partners make $600-900k with a few outliers.

I'm at one of these lifestylish firms. Associates can make up to the $300K range plus bonuses not close to big law. I think non-share partners with no books are in the $300-400 range. Equity partners are all over the board. Some can, and do, make millions.

Which law firms in the San Francisco Bay Area are more like these lifestyle-like firms with these bigger salaries?