Large Firms
Jul. 10, 2001
A Break From Backbreaking Prosperity
Bob Gunderson has been vilified by law-firm managers and deified by associates. But the voluble co-founder of the 125-lawyer, Menlo Park-based Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian says he never intended to be the poster boy of the salary war, even though his firm was the first to raise first-year associate annual salaries nearly $50,000 to a whopping $145,000 in late 1999.
Bob Gunderson has been vilified by law-firm managers and deified by associates.
But the voluble co-founder of the 125-lawyer, Menlo Park-based Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian says he never intended to be the poster boy of the salary war, even though his firm was the fir...
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