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“For Better Law Careers: Cut My Salary, Please!”

Filed under Career Exploration, On the Job, Salary and Benefits
Posted by Libraries, April 24, 2006
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Cameron Stracher, CollegeJournal.com, April 4, 2006
http://www.collegejournal.com/columnists/myopinion/20060404-stracher.html?mod=RSSCollegeJournal&coljrss=frontpage

“Sullivan & Cromwell will raise starting salaries for newly minted attorney … to $145,000 (plus bonus) …” However, according to the author, “what makes economic sense to the firms makes less sense for young lawyers … When I started practicing, lawyers were expected to bill around 1,800 hours a year. These days, it’s about 2,200. Those 400 extra billable hours translate to about 600 more hours at work.”

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