Posted on 06/05/2012 12:13:56 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Re: “I think “attorney” has the widest salary range of most any profession.
If you’re a petroleum engineer, you probably make 80k to 120k.
If you’re a pediatrician MD, you probably make 150k to 200k.
It you’re a lawyer, you can be 10k or 2 million. I think there are a LOT at the lower end.”
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Agree — many lawyers make very little — I know a few in L.A., that’s right, L.A., who are scraping by. One guy can barely afford to pay an assistant so shares one, and office space. He takes piddling cases and makes do. He’s been doing this for many years. Doesn’t want to go with a bigger firm. He is somewhat unusual but as I said, there are others. Yes, there are WAY too many ‘lawyers.’
Yep, unless you're dating Sandra Fluke and have to buy birth control for her. /s
That’s why, after being laid off by a top Boston firm in Jan of 2008, along with the previous four hires, our son decided to join his new wife in the firm SHE set up after also being laid off. Now they both also do appellate work for the State.
so whaddaya call a ship full of lawyers sinking to the bottom of the ocean?
A start
bada boom
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