When Baker McKenzie kicked off the 2020 bonus season earlier than Thanksgiving that yr, North America CEO Colin Murray instructed U.S. associates by way of e mail the agency’s bonus scale would match “any will increase out there ought to they happen.”
After relinquishing first-mover place to Cravath, Swaine & Moore in 2021, Baker McKenzie once more led this yr’s bonus season bulletins—absent the promise of matching peer companies.