Senator, New Jersey. Thomas Brackett Reed - Former Speaker of the House, United States House of Representatives. Anne-Marie Slaughter - Former Director of Policy Planning, United States State Department. Keith Noreika - Acting U.S. Comptroller of the Currency Bim Afolami - MP for Hitchin and Harpenden Business Suzanne Nora Johnson - Former Vice Chairmen, Goldman Sachs. Anne-Marie Slaughter - President and CEO, New America Foundation. Lynn Forester de Rothschild - CEO of E.L. Rothschild. Alan D. Schnitzer - chairman and CEO, The Travelers Companies, Inc. Euwyn Poon - President and Founder, Spin Academia Guido Calabresi (Summer Associate) - Former Dean, Yale Law School Karenna Gore Schiff - Author, journalist and Director of the Union Theological Seminary. Eleanor M. Fox - Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation in the New York University School of Law Deborah N. Archer, Esq. President of the American Civil Liberties Union Others Charlie Reiter (born 1988), soccer player Whitney North Seymour - Former President, American Bar Association, Legal Aid Society, and New York City Bar Association. Associate compensation In 2007, Simpson Thacher led the market by raising the base salary for first-year associates to $160,000 per year. In the process, it established the market salary for all of its peer firms in New York City. Simpson Thacher again led the market in 2014 when it raised associate bonuses by as much as $40,000, matched within hours by other New York elite firms Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. In 2016, law firm Cravath, Swaine and Moore LLP beat the "Simpson salary scale" for the first time in nearly a decade with a 12.5% increase in associate base salary, a move that was promptly matched by Simpson Thacher and other large law firms. As of March 2, 2022, the base salary for first-year Simpson Thacher associates begins at $215,000. Rankings and awards Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is consistently among the most profitable large law firms in the world on a per-partner basis according to The American Lawyer'''s annual AmLaw 100 Survey. The firm is also recognized in various other surveys, including Vault.com's 2010 review of the 20 Best Law Firms to Work For. Ranked among the most prestigious law firms to work for in the United States by Vault Law 100, placing 8th in 2022. Named "Finance Litigation Department of the Year" in 2022 by The New York Law Journal.