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Don’t go to law school
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I worked at firms as a law clerk all throughout school. I was at personal injury firm 3L year. I made like $16 an hour in Chicago in 2018. It was okay.
I mostly did research, medical chronologies and deposition abstracts.
Is personal injury the type of law you want to practice? If not, it may be more valuable for you and have higher pay if you explore other areas of law. PI tends not to pay well generally, so if this is purely a budgeting question, you could look into a firm that does labor & employment or finance, two very hot areas right now which may be open to the help.