Ranking Over Money

spayurpets
Fri, 29 Jan 2016 16:48:56 +0000

Yes, agreed @Demosthenes49 but I still think the odds are in your favor. Will you honestly tell me that most people should not take that bet if they were presented to them?: Going to BC Law and having,say, a 50-50 chance of being a successful lawyer (and getting about $1,000,000-$2,000,000 in additional lifetime income) but taking on $150,000 debt, or taking an entry level college graduate position that has basically minimal chance of climbing out of the middle class without a graduate degree. I know what I would tell my child given these odds.

Anyway, where do you get that small law is $30-40k? Entry level positions at solo and small firms in Boston are easily double what you’re talking about. And non-attorney jobs get you $50,000 easy (paralegal, contract reviewer, legal assistant). The only positions that get only $30,000 are attorney temp positions and doc reviewer, which is the attorney version of unemployment. The pessimism about the legal profession is ridiculously overdone.