First-year D.C. lawyers still receive good salaries, but fewer are seeing top-market pay

Good salaries still await law school grads in Washington, though fewer are getting top-of-market pay, according to an annual report from the National Association of Legal Professionals.

Its 2015 Associate Salary Survey says the median pay for first-year associates at large firms in Washington remains $160,000. But that is the case at about 60 percent of D.C. firms this year. In 2009, about 90 percent of firms with more than 700 lawyers reported first-year salaries of $160,000.

NALP says among major…