you can do it with any degree really. You just need to take a hell of alot of classes each semester. My dad did his undergrad in two years before heading to law school

 

well cornell, columbia, nyu, and georgetown are all top 20 schools and students from those schools average around 130k per year, and the top firms are pay 165k a year for first year associates.

 

in the d.c. area it is 70 and they don't let you take a vacation for the first 3 years you are employed.

 

Damn, it's no wonder those young ****** with $100K cars have no patience driving around. The money is good but the quality of life is questionable.

 

I Work for MS, and i can assure you that the develpoers are not putting in 90 hours a week, unless its an emergency.

 

Funny...thats the same thing John and Puria told us when they started selling their bodies around dupont circle!!! ...LOL...J/k

 

i dont know about this 70 billable hours thing, considering not every hour is billable. it sounds hard to believe cause thatd end up something like, you wake up, goto work for 16 hours go home and sleep for 4 hours, wake up and goto work again and work on weekends too.
I wouldnt know cause im not in the profession but that just dosnt sound like something thats humanly possible.

 

It's funny how some of these jobs pays twice as much but requires you to work 3 times as many hours.

 

24 hrs in a day. 5 working days a week (Mon-Fri)

To get 70 hrs a week = 14hrs a day x 5 days a week = 70

That means you work 14 hrs a day and you have 10 remaining hours a day to yourself..

 

except its 70 billable hours not work hours, usually 70% of the hours are billable.. thats around 100 hours a week, even if you are real efficient and can bill 80% of your hours its still going to be a 90 hour week. my friends in the law NYC frims are billing around 2400 hours a year, and thats considered a lot already. 60 billable hours = ~3000 hours a year its CRAZY. 70 is even crazier

*my point is that lawyers life isnt as bad as some people make it out to be, yeah they work tons of hours. but i cant see someone average 70 billable hour weeks consistently. I think a more realistic number is around 50 billable hours, which translate into 60-70 hour work week, much tougher than other professions, but not suicidal. 60 billable hours should be considered pretty extreme already.

 

I've worked a 91 hour week (all billable) and it was pretty horrible. That said, I currently work with several DC firms, and their hours are pretty reasonable.

 

hey vick, how much sleep were you able to get in that 91 hour week? describe that week for us, just curious. thats like more than double the time we spend at work per day.

 

13 hrs a day (7am-8pm) for 7 days... they'd cater breakfast, lunch and dinner, but still awful... of course, being in rural Indiana helped in that you weren't really missing much and got laundry done at the hotel.

 

Remember, when you get your law degree you get to determine your future. I went to Fordham and most of my peers went on to the big firms. No question that the money is good.

Or you can do what I am doing (and I have been practicing for 2 years). Join a smaller firm that pays you on percentage of what you bill. Make sure they will allow you to get their client over flow. I suggest starting with family law and getting on the court appointed criminal list for your jurisdiction.

The family law will pay the bills until you get your name out and the appointed fees are not bad. Also, every time a retained client walks through the door with a simple misdemeanor it’s a grand. Felonies start at $3,000 and the sky is the limit.

If you have some extra time during the first year of your practice, get an xbox.

 

Haha I've been doing a lot of reading and it looks like i will be working close to that 70-80 hours a week mark. From what I've read the first 3 years of working are basically just.. work .. work.. sleep. eat. work work work but everything is caterred to you. Breakfast,Lunch, Dinner and if you get into a larger firm many times they will chauffer you to and from your house. $130k is average for a higher end law school and can go upwards of $200k. Although I will probably have close to $100 in debt so my first 3 years will be paying for that. But then theres bonus's and thats where Ill be able to afford the e92 m3 haha. It's gonna be crazy though, If I graduate on time, I'll be 23 and hopefully making around 150k + bonus's. Maybe then i can afford to mod my car like you guys, i probbaly just wont have the time though For you guys are in law firms, Im debating whether i want to do an internship this summer. Do you think its worth it or should i just have fun this summer?