Will associate salaries tumble? 

Posted: 1:00 am Mon, June 8, 2009
By Michelle Lore

For years associate starting salaries at big law firms continued to skyrocket despite dire warnings that they had reached a level that was unsustainable. At the height of the salary wars, starting associates’ pay was bumped up to $160,000 a year at many of the nation’s largest law firms. With the realities of the economic ...