Ok, I know nothing about this, but: diff kinds of lawyers make really diff annual salaries. Can you give me some examples, from all over the spectrum?
posted June 17th, 2016 at 10:02am in Toddler
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- Public defender versus someone who does M&A at Cravath 6-17-2016 10:02am
- how much do each of these people make? 80k vs 500k or what are you saying? 6-17-2016 10:04am
- 50k versus a partner at a place like Cravath can make 2-4 million. 6-17-2016 10:06am
- ^^associates at firms like Cravath start in the high 100k's - but it is a miserable situation for most 6-17-2016 10:08am
- np: I am an NYC public defender, at the top of our pay scale after 22 years of experience. I make $113K. A FIRST YEAR associate at a big law firm makes $160K, and I believe the...(more) 6-17-2016 10:08am
- I read that some of them are taking first year pay to 180k, but their clients are balking saying they will not allow that to be passed on to them 6-17-2016 10:08am
- The whole system is broken (NP here). They should pay less overall and better quality of life overall. The same law firms are competing for the same students and paying...(more) 6-17-2016 10:10am +1 likeOUTRAGEOUS salaries for someone 25 years old. Then they overwork them b/c they are overpaid. Then they have to cut back and people lose their jobs, its a neverending ridiculous cycle
- And there is a lot of pushback from clients on the model also 6-17-2016 10:11am
- yes, its just llike...it always happens this way! I have lived thru multiple recessions, I've been a lawyer for 25 years. 6-17-2016 10:12am
- And there is a lot of pushback from clients on the model also 6-17-2016 10:11am
- The whole system is broken (NP here). They should pay less overall and better quality of life overall. The same law firms are competing for the same students and paying...(more) 6-17-2016 10:10am +1 like
- I read that some of them are taking first year pay to 180k, but their clients are balking saying they will not allow that to be passed on to them 6-17-2016 10:08am
- 50k versus a partner at a place like Cravath can make 2-4 million. 6-17-2016 10:06am
- how much do each of these people make? 80k vs 500k or what are you saying? 6-17-2016 10:04am
- my dh will make about 50k this year (that should go up next year, he just started back to work this past august so he had to build up a book of buisness). Someone else at the same...(more) 6-17-2016 10:03am
- guy who hangs out a shingle on his won vs. corporate litigator at big NY firm 6-17-2016 10:03am
- ^^^ on his own 6-17-2016 10:04am
- and the salaries? 6-17-2016 10:05am
- I don't know, 50K up to 3 mil 6-17-2016 10:05am
- and the salaries? 6-17-2016 10:05am
- ^^^ on his own 6-17-2016 10:04am
- There is such a huge range. Big law, partners, a smaller place but with big payouts, regular small law firm shingle, then there are the corporate counsel, work in companies,...(more) 6-17-2016 10:05am
- Government lawyers generally make less than those in private practice. Big firm lawyers tend to make more than smaller firm. WIthin practice area...(more) 6-17-2016 10:05am s, much depends on who the client is and how deep the pockets are. A white-collar defense lawyer may be able to charge more because a corporation is paying. An elder law person will have to charge less because the client will be an individual with less money.
- right, and if you have a shingle, depends what you do. Someone could hit it with a HUGE payout. 6-17-2016 10:07am
- 140,000 + bonus, civil defense, Chicago. Equity partners making average 800,000 6-17-2016 10:06am
- starting salary Manhattan DA about 60K Legal aid about...similar? 6-17-2016 10:08am
- my brother is a 5th year associate for big law and makes @ $250k 6-17-2016 10:09am
- jesus. This is why they don't have any money and aren't hiring. Because they overpay 5th yr associates. 6-17-2016 10:09am
- are you aware how hard those people work? 6-17-2016 10:10am -1 dislike
- LOLOL yes I am an attorney. 6-17-2016 10:10am
- at a big firm like that? 6-17-2016 10:12am
- si, but thankfully no more. 6-17-2016 10:13am
- well then obviously you are aware how hard they work. 6-17-2016 10:14am
- yes but the whole model is fucked up. They should hire more people at a lower salary and work them less. Its just all so broken IMHO. 6-17-2016 10:14am +1 like
- well then obviously you are aware how hard they work. 6-17-2016 10:14am
- si, but thankfully no more. 6-17-2016 10:13am
- at a big firm like that? 6-17-2016 10:12am
- he is like a slave to the firm, seriously. I don't think it's worth it. he spends the night at the office not infrequently. 6-17-2016 10:11am
- LOLOL yes I am an attorney. 6-17-2016 10:10am
- he just got a $30k raise--several firms in nyc match salaries and another firm raised their salaries, so voila, he got a raise 6-17-2016 10:10am
- no. It's a pyramid. There are far fewer 5th years than 1st years. You need to pay these people because they still have no life outside of work and they are doing the lion's...(more) 6-17-2016 10:11am +1 like
- this. 6-17-2016 10:12am
- are you aware how hard those people work? 6-17-2016 10:10am -1 dislike
- jesus. This is why they don't have any money and aren't hiring. Because they overpay 5th yr associates. 6-17-2016 10:09am