See the following link: NYT Blog on High Law Firm Salaries

Read the comments.

My comment.

Have you checked the race of these high paid associates.  Many firms have now moved to a two tier system — hiring the whitest for these salaries — while having a back room of black and brown law school graduates working for one-half to one-third the pay doing endless docuemnt review.  But since they too have the high law school debt — what’s a minority to do?

Public service — puh-leeze!  $30 - $40K with over $100K in non dischargeable debt — you do the math.

But of course journalism must be sensationalist to get readers, I guess.

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