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Hate lawyers all you want, just remember your hatred when you sidle up to one at the next cocktail party for some "free" advice.

And by the way, not all lawyers are the highly-paid gazillionaires everyone thinks. Most are paid modestly - likely in the neighborhood of $50k or so, depending on geographical location.

The ones that make the big bucks in NYC, LA and other metro-centers work the equivalent of 2 or 3 full time jobs (120+ billable hours a week and 150+ overall hours). Take two or three full time jobs doing exactly what you do and you'll double or triple your salary and you'll make the big bucks as well. But don't forget to kiss your wife and kids in the 20 minutes you see them - if you remember what they look like. . . .

Lawyers can double up their billable hours - wait in court with one client, work on a document for another - bill both.

I suspect some of them have a researcher working for $30 an hour, and they bill the client as if they were doing the work, for $200.

>>>>"The ones that make the big bucks in NYC, LA and other metro-centers work the equivalent of 2 or 3 full time jobs (120+ billable hours a week and 150+ overall hours). Take two or three full time jobs doing exactly what you do and you'll double or triple your salary and you'll make the big bucks as well. But don't forget to kiss your wife and kids in the 20 minutes you see them - if you remember what they look like. . . ."<<<<

I work 0600 to o dark thirty seven days a week, I am a Contractor, I cannot imagine only having 18 hrs per week off, then again I am not a Lawyer that must be able to bill clients while I sleep (Do the Math, 24 x 7 = 168 hours)

>>>"Hate lawyers all you want, just remember your hatred when you sidle up to one at the next cocktail party for some "free" advice"<<<

Free Advice? In my business they call that an Estimate or a Proposal and it comes with Hours of Research, Drawings and yes other "Free Advice" (is given freely, we don't have "chargeable hours" for every minute that we are awake, even to Lawyers who by the way are #1 on my BAD RISK list, I have more collection problems with Lawyers than any other profession)

P.S. I don't have time for cocktail parties, unless I need to find a Lawyer that owes me money.

TT

My issue is with the ones who will twist the law and force new precedent on us because of their willingness no bastardize the law. They have subverted the intention of so much of our legal code. These are the same people who give us the phony wall of separation, abortion and constitutional right of prisoners to have cable.