Can anyone tell me what the average starting pay for an attorney in Texas?

Question

Not sure what kind of law, but most likely genera law or something to do with politics. Thanks.

Answer 1

Your question is way too broad to answer substantively. Many factors will affect your starting salary including, but not limited to, whether you take a public or private sector job, the law school you attend, and your class ranking in law school.

As you suggest, the type of law you practice is also relevant. General practice is generally not lucrative. Look at the back of the Greensheet at the lawyers who do cheap divorces. Those are general practice attorneys. I have no idea what "something to do with politics" means.

On the low end, you can make around $30,000 at a small firm or in a low-end public sector job. On the high end, you can make $160,000 plus bonus at a big firm.

Below is a link to a well written article from a recent Wall Street Journal concerning legal salaries. Since you're in Texas, I quote below a portion of the article discussing a recent University of Houston Law graduate who made $32,000 a year out of a law schoo, and is currently making even less. Keep in mind too that U of H Law is one of the better law schools in Texas (likely the second best public law school in the state behind UT).

--Some new lawyers try to hang their own shingle. Matthew Fox Curl graduated in 2004 from second-tier University of Houston in the bottom quarter of his class. After months of job hunting, he took his first job working for a sole practitioner focused on personal injury in the Houston area and made $32,000 in his first year. He quickly found that tort-reform legislation has been "brutal" to Texas plaintiffs' lawyers and last year left the firm to open up his own criminal-defense private practice.

He's making less money than at his last job and has thought about moving back to his parents' house. "I didn't think three years out I'd be uninsured, thinking it's a great day when a crackhead brings me $500."--

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119040786780835602.html

Answer 2

truthfully there's no such factor as "incapacity PAY", you're now not paid for being disabled. What you might obtain is known as "incapacity advantages". If your case is authorized then you definately might get an quantity from SSI from which your legal professional's bills might be deducted and you would get the steadiness. Problem is that you are most effective allowed to maintain onto $two,000 and that is all. So you would have to use the steadiness towards matters you wish to have to your incapacity. The quantity you might obtain per month is distinctive for every individual and I do not know the way so much you are authorized for therefore I can not wager. I suspect your legal professional additionally carried out for Medicare for you.

Answer 3

I am no expert, but if a person goes through law school, and passes his bar exam, he should be making over a hundred thousand to start. That's my guess. From there, it should only go up if he is good in his field of expertise.