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Sunday Chicago Tribune Magazine Article on Lawyers

By Peter

Here's the link...the piece attempts to paint a picture regarding the economic disparity that exists in the legal profession. It's worth a read since the Tribune is the paper of record here but other than that not a great effort.

It does hit on some of issues we've been writing about for three years in this space like the cost of law school and the over-population of lawyers. Yet the "foil" in the article (and I say that with no disrespect) is a Cook County State's Attorney making $59k per year. There are many, many lawyers struggling far more than to the tune of $59k per year...like a first year ASA for example.

I have lunch with a person-a-month who I've met through the blog usually struggling to find A JOB and considering solo practice. Here's a previous post on the subject with a link to the September '07 article in the WSJ about the state of the legal job market...it's more on point.

Full post as published by Solo In Chicago on April 08, 2008 (boomark / email).