The following are links to some helpful resources and publications regarding attorney compensation issues, both in-house and in private practice:
- ALM and Corporate Counsel’s 2013 Law Department Compensation Benchmarking Survey [This survey covers 4,851 attorneys in 9 job categories within 188 corporate law departments.]– http://www.almlegalintel.com/SurveyDescription.aspx?id=w7GYPXToQVk=&type=fEFgIaD+grg=
- Minority Corporate Counsel of America and Navigant’s 14thAnnual General Counsel Survey for 2012 [This survey was released in September 2013 and reviews General Counsels in Fortune 1000 companies.] – http://www.mcca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.ViewPage&pageId=2359
- HBR Consulting’s Law Department Survey of 2012 [This consulting company gathers data from more than 6000 attorneys across nine levels and more than 5000 non-attorney staff, including 63 CLOs. The median company surveyed had 32 attorneys worldwide and $9 billion in worldwide revenues.]– http://www.hbrconsulting.com/lawdepartmentsurvey.html
- Equilar, Inc.’s 2012 In-Depth Top General Counsel Report [This compensation research company surveys more than 1/3 of Fortune 1000 companies across a variety of industries. The survey respondents include 404 General Counsels.] – http://www.equilar.com/knowledge-network/research-reports/2012-research-reports/2012-in-depth-top-general-counsel-compensation-report.php
- National Association of Law Placement’s “Buying Power Index Class of 2011,” January 2013 [This chart uses cost of living information from The Council for Community & Economic Research and NALP’s data on the median private practice salaries in each city to determine the true local value of that city’s median salary.]
– http://www.nalp.org/buying_power_index_class_of_2011 - National Association of Women Lawyers’ 2012 Report on the Seventh Annual National Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms [This report evaluates the status of women attorneys in AmLaw 200 firms in the areas of leadership positions and compensation.]
– http://nawl.timberlakepublishing.com/files/NAWL%202012%20Survey%20Report%20final.pdf - American Bar Association’s From Visible Invisibility to Visibly Successful: Success Strategies for Law Firms and Women of Color and Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Fortune 500 Law Firms [These publications of the ABA’s Women of Color Research Initiative examine the dynamics of women of color in law firms and in-house at Fortune 500 companies with over 1,000 survey respondents.]– see publications from the Commission on Women in the Profession – http://www.americanbar.org/groups/women/publications.html
- Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, by Mazhzarin R. Banaji and Anthony Greenwald, 2013 – http://www.amazon.com/Blindspot-Hidden-Biases-Good-People/dp/0553804642
- ALM and MLA’s Partner Compensation Survey, 2012 [survey sent to ~75,000 major law firm partners, ~ 2,200 respondents] – http://www.mlaglobal.com/~/media/Files/Allegis/MLAGlobal/Partner%20Compensation%20Survey/2012/FullReport.pdf
- ABA Presidential Task Force on Gender Equity and the Commission on Women in the Profession’s What You Need to Know About Negotiating Compensation, 2013 – http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/young_lawyers/negotiations_guide_task_force.authcheckdam.pdf
- Edge International’s Partner Compensation Systems in Professional Service Firms Part I and Part II, 2013 – http://www.edge.ai/Edge-International-1057905.html
- Vault and MCCA’s 10th Annual Law Firm Diversity Survey, 2013 – http://www.vault.com/blog/workplace-issues/latest-survey-shows-slow-improvements-in-law-firm-diversity/
- Valuing Diversity, by David B. Wilkins of Harvard Law, as published in Managing the Modern Law Firm, edited by Laura Empson – http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Modern-Law-Firm-Perspectives/dp/019958964X