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Linklaters the latest to match Cravath’s $180,000 associate pay in New York salary war

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23 June 2016
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Linklaters has become the latest, and the last, of the Magic Circle firms in the US to match Cravath, Swaine & Moore’s $180,000 pay for first year associates in New York.

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