I’m considering leaving a comfortable government job for private practice. I enjoy the service and comforts of government work but need to earn more money. I have more than a decade of legal work experience but getting “aged-out” in many ways from opportunities. What is a reasonable salary to reenter private practice for 1900 hours in ID/commercial lit? I have a family.

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I work at an ID firm in Jersey City, NJ. Granted our salaries are stingy even for insurance defense, but I doubt they’d pay you more than $150K, and they’d probably make an initial offer of $130K

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I worked as a paralegal for Lydecker back in 2019. Headquarter office. I remember that 2nd year attorneys were at $65k back then

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If you haven’t already, you should post this in the BigLaw bowl. They would be able to give more insight if you want a higher salary in comm lit

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AA1- yes I am making those assumptions since OP didn’t provide those details but did confirm wanting a higher salary. But we also know nothing of OPs actual background so I think it’d be premature to say that biglaw isn’t realistic for them. Given they just posted in that bowl, I don’t think these assumptions were incorrect. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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