What Lawyers Earn 2000, L-Pa

•  Associates at large firms

•  City Attorneys
•  Clerks
•  Federal Judges
•  General Counsel
•  Government Attorneys

•  Incoming 2000 Associates

•  State Judges
•  Law Deans
•  Law Professors
•  Legal Services
•  Partners
1998-99 profits per partner


•  Prosecutors
Entry-level to DA, by county


•  Public Defenders
•  Public-interest Lawyers

•  State Attorneys General
Law Deans
University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall): $195,600
University of Georgia School of Law: $209,000
University of Houston Law Center: $185,000
University of Idaho College of Law: $139,089
The University of Michigan Law School: $225,720
University of Montana School of Law: $113,000
University of North Carolina School of Law: $236,000
The Ohio State University College of Law: $229,000
The University of Texas School of Law: $206,000
University of Wisconsin Law School: $183,000
Source: National Law Journal staff interviews.


Law Professors
University of Baltimore School of Law
Assistant professor: $74,963
Associate professor: $84,635
Full professor: $104,788
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Assistant professor: $83,484
Associate professor: $96,840
Full professor: $122,724
Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Assistant professor: $86,780
Associate professor: $105,376
Full professor: $123,972
University of Florida, Levin College of Law
Assistant professor: $71,846
Associate professor: $79,243
Full professor: $114,053
Lewis and Clark Northwestern School of Law
Assistant professor: $73,350
Associate professor: $89,000
Full professor: $114,500
Loyola University New Orleans School of Law
Assistant professor: $56,416
Associate professor: $76,756
Full professor: $87,436
University of Montana School of Law
Assistant professor: $52,768
Associate professor: $75,456
Full professor: $87,800
St. John’s University School of Law
Assistant professor: $92,000
Associate professor: $105,000
Full professor: $143,500
Texas Tech University School of Law
Assistant professor: $74,858
Associate professor: $86,500
Full professor: $123,497
University of Puerto Rico School of Law
Assistant professor: $54,000
Associate professor: $59,000
Full professor: $68,000
Vermont Law School
Assistant professor: $67,740
Associate professor: $80,619
Full professor: $90,300
College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law
Assistant professor: $90,000
Associate professor: $99,250
Full professor: $130,000
Source: Society of Law Teachers, 1999-2000 Salary Survey. Figures represent median salaries as of Aug. 1.


Legal Services
Boise, Idaho
Idaho Legal Aid Services
Staff attorney: $25,000
Director: $55,000
Boston
Greater Boston Legal Services
Staff attorney: $31,100 to $70,350
Director: $38,850 to $74,350
Clinton Township, Mich.
Lakeshore Legal Aid Bureau
Staff attorney: $26,400 to $40,000
Director: $55,000
Columbus, Ohio
State Legal Services
Staff attorney: $32,000 to $52,319
Executive director: $92,084
Concord, N.H.
New Hampshire Legal Assistance
Staff attorney: $31,000 to $52,750
Executive director: $60,000
Denver
Colorado Legal Services (formerly Legal Aid Society of Metro Denver)
Staff attorney: $26,037 to $64,270
Executive director: $85,000
Mission, S.D.
Dakota Plains Legal Services
Staff attorney: $29,126 to $42,881
Managing attorney: $46,594
Montgomery, Ala.
Legal Services Corp. of Alabama Inc.
Staff attorney: $27,196
Executive director: $66,000
Nashville, Tenn.
Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee
Staff attorney: $33,500 to $73,000
Director: $73,000
Richmond, Va.
Central Virginia Legal Society
Staff attorney: $27,500
Director: $82,000
Rockford, Ill.
Prairie State Legal Service
Staff attorney: $30,000 to $47,000
Executive director: $99,225


Partners   1998-99 profits per partner
Altheimer & Gray (Chicago): $510,000
Cooley Godward (Palo Alto, Calif.): $665,000
Covington & Burling (Washington, D.C.): $530,000
Davis Polk & Wardwell (New York): $895,000
Dorsey & Whitney (Minneapolis): $316,000
Drinker Biddle & Reath (Philadelphia): $330,936
Dykema Gossett (Detroit): $272,632
Gardere Wynne Sewell & Riggs (Dallas): $388,381
Jenner & Block (Chicago): $441,698
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel (New York): $720,000
Latham & Watkins: $1,004,000
Locke Liddell & Sapp (Texas): $367,884
McDermott, Will & Emery (Chicago): $785,000
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (San Francisco): $505,000
Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler (New York): $554,000
Patton Boggs (Washington, D.C.): $509,000
Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul (Philadelphia): $230,165
Shearman & Sterling (New York): $650,000
Sills Cummis Radin Tischman Epstein & Gross (Newark, N.J.): $406,500
Steptoe & Johnson (Washington, D.C.): $435,000
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan (Dallas): $630,000
Townsend and Townsend and Crew (San Francisco): $651,000
Winstead Sechrest & Minick (Dallas): $350,000
Winston & Strawn (Chicago): $475,000
Source: National Law Journal survey of partner income and staff interviews with individual offices. The figures are current as of Aug. 1.


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