Comfortable New 12 months! One Biglaw agency not too long ago made positive that nearly everybody on the agency was in a position to ring in 2026 with some actually nice information — for his or her financial institution accounts.
Sources inform us that administration at Norton Rose Fulbright — a agency that introduced in $2,436,258,000 gross income in 2024, placing it at No. 20 on the Am Regulation 100 — emailed almost everybody on New 12 months’s Eve, asserting that NRF could be paying out particular bonuses after successful a big contingent charge case. We’ve been instructed that just about everybody on the agency, from attorneys (not simply those that labored on the case) to enterprise companies professionals, will obtain the bonus.
“Fairly superior solution to finish the yr,” a tipster mentioned. Though the particular bonuses have but to hit accounts, rumor has it that payouts will vary from $2,000 to $20,000.
Congratulations to everybody at Norton Rose Fulbright!
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