Curious what a big law lateral (4th year) signing bonus may be? If I get an offer, this will be my first big law job, so I have nothing to compare it to.

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This usually depends on practice area but I don’t think anything is hot enough right now to pay a substantial bonus unless you’re coming off a clerkship or have some other bargaining chip (e.g., clients you’re bringing over). Bonuses for laterals were pretty rare until the recent boom in transactional work, and I think that’s all fizzled out.

Would love to hear from someone with a datapoint proving me wrong, though!

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Depends so much on the market for associates, both generally and in your specific practice area. I would say you should probably expect to be able to negotiate for them to make you whole on any annual bonus that you would be losing out on by leaving your current firm, but unless you’re in a particularly in demand practice group, I would not expect crazy signing bonuses like we saw last year.

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I wouldn’t necessarily expect one right now unless you’re the unicorn they’ve been waiting for…

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