Annual Salary | Hourly Wage | |
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Top Earners | $129,500 | $62 |
75th Percentile | $96,500 | $46 |
Average | $80,743 | $39 |
25th Percentile | $60,000 | $29 |
I know that it varies, but on average, how many cases does the average lawyer handle per year. I know that public defenders handle about 500 per year. What about other attorneys? What is their average?
I met an attorney who had started working on a case as a summer associate. The case finally wen to trial when he was up for partner 8 years later. Really, there is no typical.
Well, does anyone have any idea as to how many clients they work with in a year?
I work in criminal defense. A firm of seven lawyers has hundreds of cases at one time. Granted, most don't require any immediate action, but, everyday, there are at least three attorneys going to court (which is very different than trial), and trials happen a dozen times a year (big ones once or twice a year).
Thanks for the responses everyone. I asked this question to get a better sense of What It's Like To Be a Lawyer and what their jobs entail.
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Common, hard to say. Improper, probably not. Cases move through the courts at different rates depending on their complexity and the various stages. So some cases might be going through trial and require constant action, while others might be in a waiting phase. Waiting for discovery, responses, or something else.
There was testimony provided in a Federal lawsuit not too long ago from the heads of the Family Court assigned counsel panels stating that caseloads of between 70-90 cases are acceptable.
Yes, it is common for an attorney to have 80 or even more cases per year. Otherwise that attorney would not be able to support themselves.
It all depends on the type of practice the attorney has. If the attorney is doing manly Federal White Collar cases, that attorney may handle a few dozen a year because a trial in a case like that could take several months. An attorney doing a great many traffic cases may do 10 or more each day...
It depends on the lawyer and the types of cases he or she handles. Some lawyers have less than 50 new cases per year, others may have more than that. Legal aid attorneys can have case loads of 200+.
It depends on geography, skill, experience, nature of practice (white collar crime v general criminal defense) state or federal cases and whether you are employed as a public defender
It depends on how much of their practice consits of criminal defense. Additionally, not every case takes the same amount of time.
Legal Aid lawyers carry several hundred cases at any given time. I don't know if they carry less when they are new.
Every lawyer is different. Some lawyers handle several cases a week, and others handle only a handful every year. It depends on the type of case and the amount of time and dedication which the lawyer puts into each case.
High-level felonies carry sentences of 10 years or more and should each get 70 hours of legal attention, according to a workload study. For Mr. Talaska, that’s more than two years of full-time work. Mid-level felonies require 41 hours each. A few of Mr. Talaska’s clients faced life without parole.
One had 413. Jack Talaska William Widmer for The New York Times. The numbers alone might seem to violate the Constitution. Poor defendants in the United States have the right to a competent lawyer, and hundreds of thousands of defendants rest their hopes on someone like Mr. Talaska.
That is partly because there has never been a reliable standard for how much time is enough.
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Instead, you’ll hand over a certain percentage of any compensation you receive if you win. For most attorneys, that means you won’t owe anything if you lose. However, not all law offices operate the same way – some lawyers will still charge you for associated fees around the case.
Administrative Expenses. All court cases require administrative expenses like copying, postage, legal research, and travel. For a short and simple case, this wouldn’t add up to much, but for litigation that takes a few years, administrative costs can increase significantly.