A lawyer who is an employee of a company such as Google would be salaried. These days a decent starting salary for a new law school grad in a large corporate setting would be somewhere in the $50k - $75k range. Their corporate counsel is probably making high six figures - probably seven figures if you include things like stock options. A lawyer defending personal injury suits might be a paid employee of the insurance company, but he d more likely be a member of a law firm that they hire to fight their cases. Depending on the firm, a new associate might be started at anything from about $35k up. A partners income is literally unlimited, depending only on the profit his firm makes. By comparison, in criminal law, a brand new prosecutor in my county is hired at $55k a year, and a brand new public defender at $63k a year. These salaries rise to a cap of $133k a year for a deputy DA, and $144k a year for a deputy PD. Richard
There is an incredible range. I know lawyers in private practice hoping to clear 40K this year and I know some who will make multiple millions this year. Any average would be meaningless because the curve is so wide.
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