BigLaw firms in Boston, MA
Every firm in our directory with an office in Boston, MA, best-known first, with first-year pay and where it comes from.
- Firms
- 54
- Offices
- 54
- Median first-year base
- $225,000
54 firms in Boston, MA
- Vault #3Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Office here · AmLaw #5
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #4Latham & Watkins LLP
Office here · AmLaw #2
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #6Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Office here · AmLaw #1
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #10Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Office here · AmLaw #10
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #11Sidley Austin LLP
Office here · AmLaw #6
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #12Covington & Burling LLP
Office here · AmLaw #30
$225,000
Reported to Chambers Associate (Sep 2026)
- Vault #14Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
Office here · AmLaw #20
$235,000+
Announced by the firm (Sep 2026)
- Vault #15Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Office here · AmLaw #29
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #18White & Case LLP
Office here · AmLaw #9
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #20Ropes & Gray LLP
Office here · AmLaw #7
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #21Paul Hastings LLP
Office here · AmLaw #22
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #22Cooley LLP
Office here · AmLaw #24
$255,000+
- Vault #25Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Office here · AmLaw #38
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #26Jones Day
Office here · AmLaw #15
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #27Morrison & Foerster LLP
Office here · AmLaw #42
$225,000+
Confirmed by the firm
- Vault #30Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
Office here · AmLaw #12
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #31Goodwin Procter LLP
Office here · AmLaw #21
$255,000+
- Vault #32Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Office here · AmLaw #53
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #33Proskauer Rose LLP
Office here · AmLaw #41
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #34Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.
Office here · AmLaw #37
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #37Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Office here · AmLaw #11
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #40Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Office here · AmLaw #34
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #42DLA Piper LLP (US)
Office here · AmLaw #3
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #46McDermott Will & Schulte LLP
Office here · AmLaw #16
$255,000+
- Vault #48Holland & Knight LLP
Office here · AmLaw #26
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #49K&L Gates LLP
Office here · AmLaw #48
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #50Freshfields US LLP
Office here
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #51Dechert LLP
Office here · AmLaw #39
$255,000+
- Vault #55Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Office here · AmLaw #17
Varies by office
- Vault #56A&O Shearman LLP
Office here
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #60Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Office here · AmLaw #65
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #65Crowell & Moring LLP
Office here · AmLaw #86
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #75Nixon Peabody LLP
Office here · AmLaw #88
$210,000
- Vault #77Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Office here · AmLaw #83
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #80ArentFox Schiff LLP
Office here · AmLaw #91
$215,000
- Vault #81Haynes and Boone, LLP
Office here · AmLaw #85
$225,000
Reported to Chambers Associate (Sep 2026)
- Vault #83Gunderson Dettmer LLP
Office here
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #84Fish & Richardson P.C.
Office here
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #88Cozen O'Connor P.C.
Office here · AmLaw #80
$180,000 - $215,000
Reported to Chambers Associate (Sep 2026)
- Vault #89Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Office here · AmLaw #63
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #90Foley Hoag LLP
Office here
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #93Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Office here · AmLaw #64
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #94Duane Morris LLP
Office here · AmLaw #84
$215,000
Reported to Chambers Associate (Sep 2026)
- Vault #96Husch Blackwell LLP
Office here · AmLaw #82
$200,000
- Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Office here · AmLaw #78
Pay not published - Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP
Office here · AmLaw #74
Up to $166,000
- Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
Office here · AmLaw #70
Pay not published - Jackson Lewis P.C.
Office here · AmLaw #79
Pay not published - Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
Office here · AmLaw #72
Pay not published - Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Office here · AmLaw #60
Pay not published - Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Office here · AmLaw #77
Pay not published - Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
Office here · AmLaw #93
Pay not published - Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Office here · AmLaw #94
Pay not published - Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Office here · AmLaw #76
Pay not published
Pay shows first-year base; see each firm's profile for sources and dates. How we source data
Pay and cost of living in Boston, MA
First-year base
$225,000
Median across the firms here
Estimated take-home
$155,519
After federal, state and local income tax, single filer
Same lifestyle in New York
$276,809
What you’d need there; cost-of-living index here is 152 (US average 100)