Jeff Lowe on Big Law’s Associate Pay Standoff
When The American Lawyer examined why so few Big Law firms have moved to match Milbank's new associate salary scale, Jeffrey Lowe, CenterPeak's Market President for Washington, D.C., laid out the timeline plainly:
"Labor Day is when firms traditionally get back down to business. Right now, everyone is getting distracted with high school and college graduations, vacations, stuff like that.”
For associates watching the market, that deliberate pause is more than a calendar quirk, it's a window that shapes where talent moves before firms close ranks.
