The Associate Pirate

Just updated the clerkship bonus table to reflect new info at Ropes & Gray and Covington & Burling. Covington moved to $50K in DC (take that, Arnold & Porter!), but left the bonus at $35K in San Francisco. Covington already had a $50K bonus in NY, but interestingly the bonus for two years of clerking appears to be $70K in NY but still only $50K in DC . . . if it’s really ever appropriate to say “only $50K.”

Meanwhile, Ropes & Gray is at $50K in New York and $35K everywhere else. The bonus for two years of clerking, however, is $70K in every office.

I’m a little surprised that Ropes’ clerkship bonus in Boston is lower than Bingham’s or Goodwin Procter’s, but they’ve got other stuff going for them (including a new Chicago office).