Salaries of partners in top law firms such as Hogan Lovells and Quinn Emanuel located in Washington are on an upward trajectory, with some high performing individuals and key lateral hires commanding compensation of over $5 million. An elite subset is even making between $15 million and $20 million, suggesting a significant shift in the compensation wave in the DC area’s legal circuit. Further details can be read on Law.com.
In a seemingly unrelated but equally noteworthy legal news snippet, the attorney representing former president Donald Trump in a federal election case was urged to obtain membership in the bar for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in order to challenge a gag order imposed on Trump. Read the whole story on Newsweek.
For law students, the Law School Admission Council has decided to scrap the logic games portion of the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) starting from next year’s examination. The logic games section, which required candidates to answer questions based on specified scenarios or sets of rules, has long been criticized as an overly difficult and irrelevant measure of legal proficiency. More insights can be found at Above The Law.
As for lateral shifts and moves in the legal sector, Kent Jones has joined Womble Bond Dickinson as a real estate partner based in Charlotte, N.C. (Bloomberg Law), while Céline Domenget-Morin is now a partner in the restructuring practice at Weil Gotshal’s Paris office (Bloomberg Law). Furthermore, Regina A. Pearson is the new shareholder of the energy and natural resources practice at Greenberg Traurig in Austin, Texas (Bloomberg Law).