Shanti’s Dispatches

Interesting read over at Law and Letters about starting pay for lawyers:

Although hard data about the nature of these jobs are difficult to come by (and rely on self-reporting, which is inherently unreliable), the mean salary for graduates of top 10 law schools is $135,000 while it is $60,000 for “tier three” schools. It’s certainly possible that tier-three graduates tend to gravitate toward lower-paying public-interest and government jobs, but this lower salary may also reflect the nonlegal nature of many of these jobs and the fact that these graduates are settling for anything that will pay the bills.

I came into school in the pre-law program, but quickly discovered that developing cool software applications & websites would be more fun. The above statistic makes me glad from the pocketbook perspective as well!

Law school might be nice one day though.

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