skadden arps
| 3:00PM 4/14/2009
On Sunday, The New York Times reported that Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom, a prominent New York law firm, is paying one of its associates $80,000 to take a year off. The announcement, which highlighted the incredibly high salaries enjoyed by New York lawyers, prompted an outpouring of...
| 10:00AM 4/14/2009
As an investment banker years ago in New York, I knew a good number of associates at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (known simply as "Skadden" in the industry). The law firm's banking practice is huge and notorious for working its attorneys to the bone, for extremely good wages, of...