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When you get hired by a firm, that attorney/associate finds clients and gets 30% of any fees or judgements which result?

If you don’t get clients, you don’t get paid, so in essence a sales position.

Am I correct on that?

You're selling your professional services, didn't think this was new.

Lawgiver1981 wrote:When you get hired by a firm, that attorney/associate finds clients and gets 30% of any fees or judgements which result?

If you don’t get clients, you don’t get paid, so in essence a sales position.

Am I correct on that?

Not literally, at a lot of firms, no. Most firms pay associates salaries apart from whether the associate brings in clients. In the long run, you need to have a book of business to succeed (make partner) in most firms, but it's not as cut and dried as "your pay = 30% of clients that come in the door." (Although there are some, smaller firms that do operate this way.)

Lawgiver1981 wrote:When you get hired by a firm, that attorney/associate finds clients and gets 30% of any fees or judgements which result?

If you don’t get clients, you don’t get paid, so in essence a sales position.

Am I correct on that?

In the way that you’ve described it, then yes almost any profession is a sales job

What you've described sounds like a smaller firm. Large firms don't compensate associates like this and you aren't expected to have clients until later (and even then, clientless service partners exist). There's also government, PI and in-house jobs where you don't really get clients.

You’re selling your own services/capabilities. People who are said to work sales are selling products others created.