Skadden NY Benefits? Forum

[Anonymous User]

Noticed other V10 firms have benefits like meal comp for dinner if you work past X time and also tech stipends. For example, I know STB has 2.5k tech stipend - does Skadden have tech stipends? Also what is the max dinner amount you can expense to the firm?

Incoming SA hence the anon.

[Anonymous User]

I thought most NY biglaw attorneys receive the tech grant every few years? I heard STB is not one of the generous ones when it comes to meal comp, paul weiss is more known for being generous (can anyone confirm that?)

[Anonymous User]

I thought most NY biglaw attorneys receive the tech grant every few years? I heard STB is not one of the generous ones when it comes to meal comp, paul weiss is more known for being generous (can anyone confirm that?)

how much money do people spend on meal comp. you need like $35-40, tops, inclusive of delivery and tip.

[Anonymous User]

you spend as much as you get unless its unlimited. $35 is pretty common pre covid

[Anonymous User]

I thought most NY biglaw attorneys receive the tech grant every few years? I heard STB is not one of the generous ones when it comes to meal comp, paul weiss is more known for being generous (can anyone confirm that?)

how much money do people spend on meal comp. you need like $35-40, tops, inclusive of delivery and tip.

accidentally heard PW allows ppl to order Michelin star meals without cap (over the summer), and several summers told me they reimbursed over 200 dollars a day for meals and dessert. Not that it matters once you start working ...

[Anonymous User]

Noticed other V10 firms have benefits like meal comp for dinner if you work past X time and also tech stipends. For example, I know STB has 2.5k tech stipend - does Skadden have tech stipends? Also what is the max dinner amount you can expense to the firm?

Incoming SA hence the anon.

Skadden’s is comparable to everyone else’s. Not really a meaningful difference here

[Anonymous User]

I thought most NY biglaw attorneys receive the tech grant every few years? I heard STB is not one of the generous ones when it comes to meal comp, paul weiss is more known for being generous (can anyone confirm that?)

how much money do people spend on meal comp. you need like $35-40, tops, inclusive of delivery and tip.

accidentally heard PW allows ppl to order Michelin star meals without cap (over the summer), and several summers told me they reimbursed over 200 dollars a day for meals and dessert. Not that it matters once you start working ...

Same anon from earlier -- yeah, my point is that when you're actually ordering food in-office consistently, you don't want some $200 Michelin star meal , you want decent food that you can eat relatively quickly and keep going. Pasta, heavy meat entrees, etc., just not a great idea once you're doing multiple nights at your desk. To each their own, it's just a perk that really stops mattering once you're a month into practice.

[Anonymous User]

accidentally heard PW allows ppl to order Michelin star meals without cap (over the summer), and several summers told me they reimbursed over 200 dollars a day for meals and dessert. Not that it matters once you start working ...

Excuse my plebeian question, but there's no way that Michelin-starred food delivers very well, right? I'd honestly prefer generic fast casual slop while I'm working in the office.

I heard once upon a time that DPW had a low Seamless cap ($25?), but I'm not sure if that's still the case.

[Anonymous User]

Noticed other V10 firms have benefits like meal comp for dinner if you work past X time and also tech stipends. For example, I know STB has 2.5k tech stipend - does Skadden have tech stipends? Also what is the max dinner amount you can expense to the firm?

Incoming SA hence the anon.

Skadden’s is comparable to everyone else’s. Not really a meaningful difference here

Interestingly enough STB puts it on their website that they give out tech stipends. But FWIW at my V10 they didn’t put it on their benefits page but still do give tech stipends.

[Anonymous User]

$200 per day seamless budget with no one caring at PW seems like a huge lie. I probably ordered seamless 150 times over the last year we were in office and might just need to try to lateral over to PW if this is true.

[Anonymous User]

$200 per day seamless budget with no one caring at PW seems like a huge lie. I probably ordered seamless 150 times over the last year we were in office and might just need to try to lateral over to PW if this is true.

same anon. no idea if that's the regular practice, just heard that's the practice for summers

[Anonymous User]

What's the normal time for this ubereats/seamless benefit to kick in? In the office past 7pm? 8pm?

[Anonymous User]

I thought most NY biglaw attorneys receive the tech grant every few years? I heard STB is not one of the generous ones when it comes to meal comp, paul weiss is more known for being generous (can anyone confirm that?)

How much is the Seamless budget at STB? I saw $25 on a thread but that was from 2017.