By Laurel Brubaker Calkins, Big Law Business
This year’s crop of law school graduates can expect to earn about what last year’s earned: Median starting salaries clock in at $135,000 this year, dead even with last year’s rate, according to a new study by the National Association for Law Placement .
But law school graduates lucky enough to snag posts at mega-firms in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco can expect to pull down as much as $180,000 this year, which caps the rate for first-year associates anywhere in the country. The only catch is that the high cost of living ...
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