Are First-Year Associates Overpaid?

That’s the question raised here, by Susan Hackett of the Association of Corporate Counsel, and here, by Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times.
Time for an ATL reader poll. Many of you are either first-year associates or law students who will soon become first-year associates. So we can guess how you’ll vote.
But we also have numerous readers who are in-house lawyers, senior associates, and even partners. Some members of these groups may oppose what they view as excessive salaries for first-year associates. E.g., this senior associate.
So the outcome of this poll is by no means a foregone conclusion. Here it is:

Viva La Revolution? [Corporate Counsel]
Are First-Year Lawyers Overpaid? [DealBook / New York Times]
Earlier: Skaddenfreude: What About the Senior Associates?

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