[lbo-talk] bloodsuckers at work

[Nick C. Woomer-Deters]

On 12/5/06, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe it is because so many of us, at least high
> profile lawyers of the big firm sort I used to be
> (granted I was never high profile) serve the interests
> of the rich and powerful. But how does that set us
> apart from most people in most professions? And most
> lawyers, of course, do not fall into those
> classification, but toil in the trenches for
> $60,000-$90,000 a year, the high end being marginally
> comfortable but hardly the wealth of Midas.

...And don't forget public interest lawyers, who often make
substantially less than $60,000/yr. but we still have to pay off the
same loans our much higher paid colleagues have to.  My wife and I
both work for non-profits and between the two of us, we have about
$200K in law school loans.  It's pretty awesome.  :->

-N