Legal employment and salary- Do you mind posting? Forum

[pearla]

Lawyers, Will you please post:

- Field of study
- School attended (Top 15, Tier etc...)
- Graduated top/middle/bottom of class (Optional)
- Field of work
- Years of employment
- Salary (Firts year, and subsequent if applicable)

This will help much! THANKS

[ph14]

Lawyers, Will you please post:

- Field of study
- School attended (Top 15, Tier etc...)
- Graduated top/middle/bottom of class (Optional)
- Field of work
- Years of employment
- Salary (Firts year, and subsequent if applicable)

This will help much! THANKS

For the most part, firms pay the market rate to all first year associates (which is $160,000/year in the larger markets), regardless of your school, class rank, etc. If you are hired you get the same pay as everyone else.

Check out this and this for more info.

For example, in the legal profession, where [the lockstep] system is most commonly found, all law school graduates hired by a law firm who graduated in the same year receive the same base pay, regardless of the background, experience, or ability of each. During the late-2000s financial crisis, some law firms began replacing the lockstep system with "merit-based" systems.[1]

Some firms have differing bonuses based on the number of hours you billed, and some (notably Boies Schiller) have some sort of merit/hours based system, but these are in the minority.

[Anonymous User]

- field of study?
- TTT
- top 10%
- state court staff attorney / law clerk
- 2.5
- $50k, $52.5k, $65k

[t14fanboy]

http://top-law-schools.com/forums/viewt ... 3&t=170603

Don't post here.

[r6_philly]

http://top-law-schools.com/forums/viewt ... 3&t=170603

Don't post here.

Not to be a stickler, but aren't you a 0L?

[Lord Randolph McDuff]

Actually a potentially helpful thread..

[Julio_El_Chavo]

Actually a potentially helpful thread..

http://www.nalpdirectory.com

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looking at firm websites to see how many lawyers in particular fields have honors from their respective law schools

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what this thread could potentially produce.

I guess exact grades aren't revealed by honors, but OP needs to realize that firms don't rank law students like dumbass 0Ls rank law schools and law firms. Firms have grade cutoffs. If you have a GPA above the cutoff, they consider your entire resume. You can learn a lot about firm grade cutoffs just from looking at the honors of attorneys at firms.

[Anonymous User]

Michigan State (T2 now? T3 at graduation)
12th percentile grad (5th percentile during OCI - all that mattered[*])
Commercial litigation / some white collar crime
2nd year Associate
$100,000k start, $102,000 second year

[09042014]

Actually a potentially helpful thread..

Except like 4 real lawyers are on TLS and they are first years.

[20130312]

Michigan State (T2 now?)
12th percentile grad (5th percentile during OCI - all that mattered[*])
Commercial litigation / some white collar crime
2nd year Associate
$100,000k start, $102,000 second year

MYTHICAL MIDLAW ASSOCIATE!

Also, 12th percentile means 88% of Mich State students did better than you....

[Anonymous User]

Michigan State (T2 now?)
12th percentile grad (5th percentile during OCI - all that mattered[*])
Commercial litigation / some white collar crime
2nd year Associate
$100,000k start, $102,000 second year

MYTHICAL MIDLAW ASSOCIATE!

Also, 12th percentile means 88% of Mich State students did better than you....

That isn't how State publishes rankings. And yes, we do exist, but only in the dreams of lower-end T2 and T3 1Ls......just kidding, I'm real, but apparently I interview well. GO GREEN!