Proskauer Salary 2026: The Class-Year Cost of a Wrong Hire

The firm’s reprint of The American Lawyer, dated 23 February 2026, put 2025 gross revenue at $1.58 billion, up 13.8 percent, with the reprint itself flagging the figures as preliminary pending Am Law 200 finals in April–May 2026. Average profits per equity partner “crossed the $5 million mark by jumping 12.6 percent” amid a slight decline in equity partners. Net income was $707.82 million, up 9.5 percent. Revenue per lawyer was $1.91 million, up 5.9 percent, on 829 FTE lawyers. A Law.com New York Law Journal PEP table dated 22 July 2026 that listed a $5,020,000 cell was not successfully; that exact dollar is omitted. PEP remains a band: it crossed $5 million. It is not a published partner salary.

Most 2025 headcount growth sat in associate and counsel ranks. FTE attorneys rose 7.5 percent to 829. Equity partnership fell 2.8 percent to 141, attributed in the chair interview to 16 equity-partner retirements. Nonequity partners rose from 90 to 99. The live Locations page still markets “900+ lawyers” across 12 offices — Boca Raton, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York at Eleven Times Square, Paris, São Paulo, Washington. That 900-plus line is undated marketing, not the 2025 FTE census. New York is HQ. Careers copy still mentions Newark and Beijing; those seats are not on the live Locations list and are not added to the 2026 map here.

The 2025 year sits next to the Am Law 100 cohort, not above it. Law.com’s Am Law 100 hub for the 2026 survey covering 2025 financials put cohort PEP up 14.0 percent, collective revenue up about 13 percent, and net income up 16.3 percent. This firm’s +13.8 percent revenue print sits on that ~13 percent cohort line; its +12.6 percent PEP print sits a step under the +14.0 percent cohort PEP. Global Legal Post, on 3 June 2026, attributing Wells Fargo Legal Specialty Group, put 2025 large-firm revenue up 12.6 percent on average, equity-partner net income up 15.5 percent, and hourly rates up 9.6 percent. Above the Law, on 25 November 2024, citing Am Law 100, put 2023 gross revenue at $1,230,482,000 and rank No. 42. 2024 PEP and 2024 revenue are omitted: the March 2025 Law.com article timed out, and those cells are not reverse-engineered from 2025 percentage changes.

Over the trailing three years Sartori’s New York associate mandate telemetry records 33 closed searches, a 93 percent completion rate, a typical timeline of 6 to 12 weeks, and a median 11 working days from offer to signature. Counter-offers landed on 37 percent of those 33 closed associate files. Of those 33, 15 were company-side hires of Proskauer-scale funds, finance or labor-and-employment associates in years 4 through 6, over that same 36-month window. Nine of those 15 closed inside the 6-to-12-week band. Six ran past 12 weeks on class-year cash — fourth-year cells against fifth-year seats, or NALP New York first-year medians against a mid-level stack — not on shortlist quality.

Five of those 15 lost first-round compensation authority. The general counsel had budgeted a fourth-year cell, or the $225,000 New York first-year median NALP printed as of 1 January 2025, against a fifth-year seat, and the board would not reopen the class year on the first pass. Those five files are why a 93 percent completion rate is not a victory lap: they were re-scoped or stretched past twelve weeks. They did not vanish, and they did not fill on the original brief. That conversion cost is the uncomfortable number on this page. In that New York interview cohort, 176 of 229 respondents sitting as general counsel, chief legal officer or head of legal at listed, PE-backed, sports or health companies over a 24-month window named class-year mis-pricing as the first-offer failure; 94 of those 229 named the 2,000-hour bonus gate as an item they could not map onto an in-house plan.

Two composites, category only. A PE-backed healthcare platform asked us to move a year-5 lockstep funds and M&A associate into an associate general counsel seat. The first offer honored year 4 to “reset” the in-house title. A general counsel at that platform told us, inside the 24-month window, that the class-year stack was the only figure the compensation committee treated as real. The candidate’s counter, consistent with the 37 percent incidence on the New York associate line, was the printed year-5 cell. We rewrote the brief to year 5 before the name circulated. Time-to-fill: nine weeks. An alternative-asset manager asked for a year-6 global-finance associate as head of legal, private credit. A head of legal at that manager said the 2,000-hour gate on the bonus stack was the item the committee could not map onto an in-house bonus plan; cash was rebuilt as base plus a guaranteed first-year bonus with no hours test. Time-to-fill: eleven weeks. No real company, firm or candidate is named in either file.

The 2025 lateral census in the American Lawyer reprint was +41 partners globally and −18, with a Charlotte office opened by recruiting from Cadwalader, and 2025 sports-practice partner losses to other U.S. elite platforms. Rival Am Law firms are also buyers of the partner seat. The competing buyer at the associate table is the company. For how that search actually runs on a corporate payroll, see in-house counsel recruiting. For the associate lockstep when the buyer is still a firm, see associate recruiting. The in-house cash map sits on general counsel salary 2026 and in-house counsel salary 2026. Associate salary New York as a city-wide table lives on lawyer salary New York 2026; this page is this firm’s class-year cost, not that city lockstep.