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Our firm (AM100, historically non-Cravath scale) announced raises for only one office (of our 25+ offices), which are still well below the new DPW scale (and below the prior $190k scale). Have stated that they’ll deal with salary adjustments in all other offices in 2022. Trying to GTFO ASAP.
I actually think not using a recruiter is better as the firm won’t have to pay for 25% of your salary to a recruiter, which is now 51.25k for a first year, which you can directly ask for as a signing bonus since there’s no middleman. FWIW when I first lateraled, not using a recruiter was considered a “good” thing and thus was able to negotiate 10k signing at the time as a 2nd yr lateral (and the market wasnt hot back then).