Bloomberg Law
June 21, 2016, 11:33 AM UTC

Wake Up Call: Associate Salary Raises Yet to Catch Fire in Asia

Elizabeth Olson
Elizabeth Olson
Freelance Correspondent

• Weeks after Cravath, Swaine & Moore announced its trend-setting salary hike for first-year associates, only a few Big Law firms have applied the raise for associates based in Asia,where the legal market is sluggish. (Law.com)

• A FedEx defense attorney’s powerful opening statement led federal prosecutors to make their “abrupt and embarrassing” decision Friday to abandon their drug trafficking case against the company, according to sources with knowledge of the case. (Law.com)

• Donald Trump learned a lot from the man once known as New York’s most feared lawyer ,Roy Cohn. Before Cohn was Trump’s attorney for 13 years, he served ...

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