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Originally Posted by jtrain609  All good points Tim, but what you fail to realize is that the average lawyer out of a fourth tier law school such as Cooley pops out making an average of $120,000 a year, where the chances of a pilot making it to mainline and making that much money are MUCH smaller. |
That's like saying all pilots make $200,000 and work 10 days a month. Yes, the starting salary for new associates at most top tier firms in large cities is now north of $120,000. But no one is getting those jobs right out of a fourth tier law school unless they are at the tippy top of their class or they know someone (or more likely both). Most of those jobs are going to former judicial law clerks and top 10% students out of top 20 law schools.
The majority of law school graduates are earning well below $100,000, and apparently 25% or so never work as lawyers.
Besides, being a big-firm associate
BLOWS.