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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For lawyers, they are DOJ jobs. [/quote]

Lateral attorneys at DOJ with only a few years experience easily make six figure salaries.  Based on recent numbers I saw in a job listing for the Civil Rights Division, with only four years experience, a newly hired lateral attorney at DOJ could have a starting salary of $120k.  Does this really count as "low-paying"?  Even if it's a lot less than a big-firm lawyer would make, those lawyers are already the exception rather than the rule in the legal profession.[/quote]

Yes. That really does count as low-paying when considered in context.   The comparison point is not a sales clerk at Foot Locker or a 4th year preschool teacher.  It's another Yale---->ColumbiaHarvardStanfordCalBerkley 4th year associate (aka, your former classmate)  working in Washington, D.C. at a firm or elsewhere in the private sector. [/quote]

But only about 10% of those associates have any realistic prospects of partnership after about 7-10 years at those firms.  And if they can't make partner, they have to find something else to do.  And most of the time, that "something else" isn't going to be nearly as lucrative.  [/quote]

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