Med mal attorney nyc- 7 years of experience; second year at current firm. I do the intakes all eval, expert input, and get complaint filed. Litigation partner takes it from there. Caseload is currently at 63 - about 30 of those need to be looked at for the first time. Adding more each month. 125k/year. Feeling underpaid and overworked - appreciate your thoughts.

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125k? How can you live on that in NYC? And you have any doubt about being underpaid??

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Thank you. What is shit law tho?

It’s the salary and my mistake that I didn’t formalize what I was told in my interview- that I’d get a bonus if a case I worked up settles. Now- I find that we don’t, and also we don’t get bonuses period! — but the thing pushing me to leave is that I can’t get the work done despite out-performing several coworkers.

Sorry I'm a bit confused, you just do the initial intake analysis and another partner does the actual litigation? Feels like this is limiting your exp and thus your income

Right. And that’s what’s making it harder for me to understand if I’m being underpaid. Definitely overworked tho. I can’t evaluate the number of cases they are bringing in- I pass off 3-6 ish per month- outperforming colleagues- but am assigned 10 more per month on average. Feeling like I have to get out. Thank you.

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I definitey agree with everyone above. I think that you are significantly underpaid and also they are kind of stunting your growth with the role you are in. I think I would be discussing this with your boss if I were you.

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