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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am always amazed at how much attorneys feel they should be paid.[/quote]

AMEN!  [/quote]

Why? Do you feel that way about investment bankers and professional athletes, too, or do they contribute more to society than attorneys do?[/quote]

I've never heard these groups claim (as a group) they are owed more.  JDs think they are owed six figures by passing the bar.  Attorneys who are truly contributing to the betterment society are not making 160k out of law school, nor do they expect it.  They do it because they love the job, not because they were sold on a dream of making money.[/quote]

[b]Nobody goes into law for the money.[/b]  My dad, himself an attorney, told me that in the 1980s. For 7 years of post high school education, I certainly do not think six figures is overpaying lawyers ( I made $68,000 salary during my first year as a practicing attorney).  The reason attorneys feel they should be paid a lot is based on the market.[/quote]

Of course they do!  I've worked with a number of lawyers who hate their jobs and hate the work.  They wanted money.  By the way, the still market sucks, so the feeling of being owed a certain level of salary should be gone by now.[/quote]

But so many other jobs pay more with fewer hours required.  Medical sales.[/quote]

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