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¦ From ADJUSTING on PAGE 13 10% compensation reduction will remain in place
going forward. The firm will consider additional pay
Dickinson Wright
Effective Sept. 18, the firm said it has fully re- restorations at year-end, he added.
stored pre-pandemic pay to employees making
$80,000 or less per year, reversing a temporary 10% Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath
pay cut enacted in May to offset the losses from the The firm said in a statement in October that it will
COVID-19 pandemic. The firm reduced the pay restore all compensation to pre-pandemic levels on
cut for employees earning more than $80,000 per January 1. The statement added: “Associates who
year from 15% to 7.5%. The firm also reduced the meet their original performance expectations will
reduction in partner periodic distributions from have their 2020 compensation fully restored, includ-
20% to 10%. ing payment of prior reduced amounts.”
At the end of September, the firm said, it will re-
view whether to eliminate all of the remaining cuts. Fisher & Phillips
At year-end, the firm said it will assess “whether to Fisher & Phillips fully restored pay for its salaried
bonus back some of the prior reductions” when re- lawyers and staff after the firm made 20% pay cuts
viewing year-end bonuses for eligible employees. April 30 ahead of anticipated economic fallout from
the pandemic. The national labor and employment
firm, headquartered in Atlanta, has also dialed back
Dorsey & Whitney
The firm announced Oct. 16 that pay reductions a holdback from monthly profit distributions to its
for attorneys and staff “are being restored for the equity partners. In April, Fisher & Phillips began
remainder of the year.” Associates, whose effective retaining 50% of equity partners’ monthly distribu-
annual reduction was 5%, already had the opportu- tions. Those holdbacks have been reduced to about
nity to be “trued up” for some or all of the reductions 20% as of Aug. 31.
based on meeting billable hour milestones, the firm
said, and, as the year progresses, the firm will con- Foster Garvey
sider paying previously reduced salary “in whole or Firm co-chairs Steve DiJulio and Diana Shukis
in part” to attorneys and staff. announced that all salaries would be restored to pre-
pandemic levels effective September 1.

Duane Morris
The Pennsylvania-based Am Law 100 firm an- Fox Rothschild
nounced in August that it had would eliminate the As of Sept. 1, half of the reduction in monthly eq-
15% compensation reductions for non-partner at- uity partner draws was restored, and compensation
torneys and exempt staff who earn $100,000 or more reductions that affected salaried and hourly employ-
annually, effective September 1. “Of course, our goal ees at the attorney and staff levels were restored by
is to restore all compensation shortfalls for our at- 50%.
torneys and staff as we move toward the end of this The firm said Oct. 15 that the cuts will be entirely
year,” the firm said in a statement. restored by Nov. 5.

Eversheds Sutherland Goldberg Segalla
Eversheds Sutherland is partially paying back a Goldberg Segalla, which laid off some person-
10% cut in compensation to its U.S. lawyers and staff nel this spring during the pandemic-induced
that the firm preemptively instituted in early May. shutdowns, said Aug. 31 it is seeking to rehire “cer-
The firm is retroactively restoring half of the com- tain staff ” across its departments. The firm said it
pensation reduction put in place from May through would also restore partner draws and salaries of se-
the end of August, said Eversheds Sutherland’s U.S. nior administrative leaders to pre-pandemic levels,
CEO Mark Wasserman in a Sept. 8 email. But the effective Sept. 1.

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