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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you passed the bar, you should go into practice for youself.  A first year attorney in practice with no real experience can charge $150/hr and should have no problem billing at least 10-20 hrs per week.  You can literally go to the courthouse and hang out at traffic court.  Plenty of people would pay $100 to represent them. A few of those a day is real money (drastically more than everything else suggested on here).

There are also court appointed cases for probate and other fields.  They pay mediocre for lawyers but 5-10 times what any of the other jobs you are looking at pay.  You may even find that you are a good lawyer (just a bad student).

I went into practice myself right after lawschool and 10 years later make more than anyone else I know, even those are large firms.  For the record I graduated in the bottom half of my class.[/quote]

While this could work for some, I'm not so sure it would work for OP.  Starting a business is hard work, and it takes capital but mostly lots of time- both of which OP doesn't have.  And, iss this still the case- $150/hr for traffic cases, and "easy" to bill at least 10-20 hrs a week???  if so, wouldn't more unemployed law students be doing this??[/quote]

it would be damn near impossible to bill 20 hours/week.  Competition is fierce.  [/quote]

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