Bonus news is still coming in at Biglaw firms. The latest firm to announce a market match on associate bonuses is Katten Muchin Rosenman. Well, if you've been busy billing - and the bonus amount keeps going up the more you bill. Sure, the year-end bonus schedule at Katten is a little more complex then most. But associates can take down market bonuses once they bill 2,000 hours. Additional billables are rewarded as per this chart.
There's a high-priority email associates are looking for this time of year - the one with a bonus announcement. Thankfully, Linklaters associates are done with the wait. The firm raked in a whopping $2,965,192,000 in gross revenue in 2024, according to American Lawyer. Coffers that rich make it easy to spread the wealth around via bonuses and special bonuses. Here's the scale:
