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2006-10-09 15:02:00 · 18 answers · asked by guy551 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Corporate lawyers make the most. Criminal lawyers are down near the bottom.
2006-10-09 15:10:40 · answer #1 · answered by spongeworthy_us 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Personal Injury
2006-10-10 03:20:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
All of you are absolutely wrong. The highest paid attorneys are patent lawyers, who are required to take a separate bar, and are practically required to live in Washington DC in order to practice. They make more than lawyers in any other category of practice, hands down. Unfortunately, its also one of the most boring areas of practice, and the job market is extremely competitive.
Criminal attorneys do NOT make a lot of money! Prosecutors generally start at between 40 and 50, and public defenders make less than anyone else. In Virginia, PDs start at 35. Private sector defense lawyers can do well, but it isn't exactly a steady market. Its case-by-case, and while most people seem to think that defense attorneys are sleazy rich people, most of them are hardworking professionals who are the only folks in the country willing to defend people who drink and drive, hit their spouses, steal, cheat, lie, and commit any other of the crimes that most of you have at some point committed.
2006-10-09 15:55:08 · answer #3 · answered by BoardingJD 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sorry to disappoint all previous posters, but the biggest fees of all time have gone to the class action attorneys, particularly those who took on the tobacco companies. The fees in those cases have ranged into the billions of dollars (yes, billions, with a "B").
2006-10-09 17:00:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Really it's rainmakers: the ones who, like Richard Nixon when he was practicing law, bring big corporate clients to major law firms. Such lawyers don't do much law -- they take clients to lunch.
For solo practitioners and the like it's major litigators like the late Johnnie Cochrane.
The top lawyers in any field get seriously rich. But "top" is relative. Many of the best lawyers are in academia and while they get good salaries and also consulting fees -- unless they're in a field where those are unlikely like consumer law or human rights -- they are even more worthy of respect.
The practice of law is a business as much as a profession. Who you know, and luck, have as much to do with getting rich as ability. Although incompetent lawyers are unlikely to make partner in a big firm -- where most of the money is -- I've known a lot of partners who really lacked the breadth of intellect and curiosity -- and common sense -- that makes lawyers good. And would, in a sensible world, be necessary for them to make a lot of money.
Lawyers who work at the edge of legality, inventing tax dodges (like Jonathan Blattmachr http://www.milbank.com/en/Attorneys/a-c/Blattmachr_Jonathan.htm make more money than they can spend in several lifetimes.
2006-10-09 15:10:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Use to Be Personal Injury Attorneys
2006-10-09 16:04:23 · answer #6 · answered by lawoffice_lee 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm pretty sure Corperate International Law is the sweet-spot. Not allways very easy to get into and requires a lot of education.
2006-10-09 15:05:57 · answer #7 · answered by W0LF 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Like in every other business, the lawyer who can hire other lawyers to work for him always makes the most money.
Individual lawyers can charge whatever they like, but only what the market can stand.
2006-10-09 15:05:30 · answer #8 · answered by Sugarface 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
First... one that can spell. Secondly...a Defense Attorney generally grosses more depending on there area of expertise. Did you know this form comes equipped with spell check?
2006-10-09 15:09:44 · answer #9 · answered by beach_cowgirl_70 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
criminal lawyers. they get paid by drug dealers, murderers, rapist, and other people that break the law. they pay a grip, in order to stay out of the pin.
2006-10-09 15:13:19 · answer #10 · answered by elblaze1 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋