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New lawyers' pay puts public sector to shame.
Byline: Tammy Joyner
Mar. 25--For some, law school is looking pretty good right about now.
Starting pay at many Atlanta corporate law firms has soared in the past two months. In some cases, the pay hikes are putting newly minted lawyers' base pay miles ahead of their more public service-minded peers -- and even Gov. Sonny Perdue and the state's top attorney.
Since January, when Troutman & Sanders ignited metro Atlanta's legal pay war, more than a dozen Atlanta law firms have raised salaries for first-year attorneys from $115,000 to $130,000, based on an Atlanta Journal-Constitution survey.
Heavyweights King & Spalding and Alston & Bird followed Troutman's lead. The list has since grown to include Kilpatrick Stockton, McKenna Long & Aldridge, Morris, Manning & Martin and others.
Hunton & Williams trumped the pack recently by sweetening the pot for its newbie associates to $145,000. That's more than Perdue or Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker make ($130,000 and $128,000, respectively).
Atlanta's legal largesse is part of a trend that ...
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