California salary increases continue as Chicago firm Winston & Strawn is the latest to bump up starting pay to $160,000. The firm has about 70 associates in its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld also applied the NY scale to its CA offices and its D.C. headquarters. Cooley Godward Kronish also increased first-year salariess firmwide to the $160K pay scale.

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