If you’re at Harvard, Columbia or NYU, you have a much better chance of landing a job at a big law firm that pays a $190,000 starting salary.
— Matt Moody, senior law editor at Vault, explaining the very simple reason why not every law student who dreams of an enourmous starting salary will be able to get one. More than 75 law firms increased their salary scales this summer, but that doesn’t mean all law school graduates will stand a chance of receiving those sky-high pay rates.
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Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.