NBA rookie contracts and salaries, explained The salaries for rookies selected in the first round of the NBA Draft are based on a sliding scale that corresponds to where the player is selected.

Los Angeles-based midsize law firm Michelman & Robinson announced Tuesday a new associate salary scale starting at $230,000, outpacing Big Law's latest pay rate for first years.

New York law firm Milbank has once again increased its attorney salaries, after it helped spark raises across the legal industry when it boosted its pay scale for associates last year.

The rookie salary scale is the most odious off-the-field innovation in American sport, a contraption devised by gutless, guileless team owners and embraced by players associations content to ...

Litigation boutiques and other small firms compete for the same top law students as Big Law, so they are likely to move to the new, higher market salary and bonus scales for associates.