Dorsey & Whitney / Below Market Bonuses for Lower Am Law 100 Firms Forum

[Anonymous User]

I haven't seen any ATL articles on the supposed Steptoe market bonuses. Can anyone verify?

[AntipodeanPhil]

I haven't seen any ATL articles on the supposed Steptoe market bonuses. Can anyone verify?

It's still on ATL's front page:

https://abovethelaw.com/2021/05/steptoe ... l-bonuses/

[Iowahawk]

Sorry for Dorsey associates. But then again, Dorsey is not really in the same league as the other firms. Think they are a big deal in MN and a few other random places, but no one else has ever heard of them.

I had the displeasure of being across from them on a deal (I was at a v10) and they were pretty awful. Think maybe because they are the "big fish" in MN and they are used to bullying ppl around there, but they were very mean and very very off market. Insisted on 10b-5 rep. Trying to get general releases, retroactive and prospective. Tried to get a knowledge and schedule scrape lol (never seen the schedule scrape before). And FOUGHT HARD on all of these points - their client didn't know or care about any of these points, just purely driven by the lawyers. Just bizarre. I've been across 30 person law firms from Oklahoma that were more professional and commercial.

Can you tell us which Dorsey office this was? I’m looking to lateral from a V25 to my hometown and Dorsey is one of the few big law firms there. But what you’ve just described is the type of secondary market practice that I want to avoid..

In small markets biglaw may or may not align with who’s a heavy hitter, eg I think Dorsey SLC is but Dorsey Des Moines is not (except for in health law, which it seems to dominate for some reason)

In general I’d be hesitant to extrapolate Dorsey or Faegre MN to their other offices, esp Faegre bc it’s a bit of a Frankenstein firm at this point.