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.
