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and staff who make more than $200,000, and also the firm did not immediately respond to a request
reduce pay for business services staff who earn less for comment.
than $200,000 according to a graduated scale. The In May, the firm confirmed that it furloughed 5%
firm had already reduced distributions for equity of its associates and 25% of its staff while laying off
partners in March. another 5% of associates. Associates and counsel
also took a 10% pay cut, and staff saw an across the
board 20% salary reduction.
Miller Canfield
Effective Oct. 1, all employees whose annual sal-
ary was $80,000 or less are restored to their full rate Norton Rose Fulbright
of pay. The firm’s U.S. managing partner, Jeff Cody, an-
nounced on September 11 that it “will end pay
reductions for lawyers and staff and return them to
Munck Wilson Mandala
Midsize Texas firm Munck Wilson Mandala this full compensation on September 30” for those in the
spring reduced compensation for partners, associ- U.S. Cody said this decision was made because of
ates, exempt directors and managers; furloughed the firm’s performance through August.
some salaried employees; and reduced hours for
some hourly employees. Several partners also chose Perkins Coie
to defer their base salary for three months. As of July Via a statement by firm managing partner Bill
1, a firm spokesperson said, it had resumed normal Malley, Perkins Coie announced that due to outper-
pay for all employees, and it did not reduce its head forming its financial modeling, it will roll back pay
count. cuts instituted in the early Spring. The firm had cut
salaries by 15% for all non-partner attorneys and by
10%-15% for staff making over $125,000, The firm
Nelson Mullins
Nelson Mullins in May announced it would did not specify whether it will offer restitution for
hold back a percentage of all time-keepers’ com- monies lost by employees during the austerity period.
pensation—including 9% for all associates. But
the firm promised the money would be returned Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
to associates when they met their yearly revenue Pillsbury said in an Aug. 20 statement that its fi-
goals, said Michael Hollingsworth, who runs the nancial performance in the first and second quarters
firm’s 158-lawyer Atlanta office. He said the firm was strong. “Consequently, all reductions in com-
has “a sizable bonus pool, too,” and the firm has pensation incurred in the first half of 2020 are being
exceeded its medium-level prediction under its repaid in full and we are reducing all temporary sal-
pandemic budget. ary reductions,” the firm said.
He acknowledged that lawyers whose clients were The adjusted salary cuts for Pillsbury associates
in hard-hit industries, such as hospitality or travel, and counsel are now 15%, down from 20%. For
likely aren’t going to get the full amount of their staff making more than $100,000, the pay cut is
salary holdback. “We didn’t want to punish those 10%, down from 15%, and for staff making between
having a superior year,” he said. $75,000 and $100,000, the pay cut is 5%, down from
10%.
Pillsbury announced on Oct. 16 that it had re-
Nixon Peabody
On the same day it restored some pay for staff, versed its “Shared Sacrifice” program in its entirety
Nixon Peabody said it has ultimately made the “dif- Oct. 2, eliminating all reductions in compensation
ficult” decision to lay off an undisclosed number of and partner draws. The firm also “rebated all with-
previously furloughed staff, citing the shift to remote held pay based upon the firm’s strong year-to-date
work. When asked to provide figures on the number performance,” it said in a statement.
of staff laid off as well as how many had pay restored,
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