As a lateral, if you agree to a start date before your current firm pays bonuses, do you ask the new firm to cover any supplemental year end bonuses? For example if you’re on pace for 2300 hours and would therefore get an above market bonus? Same thing for if the Milbank bonus gets built into your firm’s year end bonus

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You can ask. If they really need you to start now they might do it. Otherwise they might tell you that they’re happy to wait for you to collect your bonus before you move.

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I’ve always wondered if they check to see if you would’ve actually gotten a bonus or not

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So they just take your word for it?

As a lateral, signing bonus should have been negotiated before you agreed to a start date 👀

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Yes—this is not uncommon.

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It’s something negotiable. Many people get it.

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I asked for and got it back in the day.

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