New Lawyers In Solo Practice Incubators Are Starving For Work

They'll review your documents for food.

Going out on your own is scary. You have to pay your bills, you have to feed yourself.

Chris Markelz, a recent graduate of Whittier Law School, describing what it’s like to work in his law school’s solo practice incubator program, the Whittier Legal Access Program.

(Markelz must perform at least 300 hours of pro bono legal service, but typically handles landlord-tenant disputes, divorces, personal injury cases, and labor law disputes. Sometimes, Markelz charges only $75 an hour.)

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