Ask Freerollin` about 10 years in Law Enforcement

[Freerollin`]

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are you glad you did it? Because everything that I've been hearing about the legal profession of late has been MISERABLE.

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I'm actually leaving the practice of law. I enjoyed law school but hate the practice. Prosecuting was good work, but it pays crap, and I don't want to practice private law.



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could you be more specific about the pay scale? what salary range would one expect out of school and living in what geographic area to put that range in perspective? how about five to ten years down the road?

do you laugh when they wax philosophical on every episode of Law and Order?

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In the suburbs, you're looking at anywhere from $28-35K or so. Major cities are $40-50K. Assume 3-5% or so increase/year. This is my best guess.

Law and Order, along with every other police/LE show (ESPECIALLY CSI) is so far from reality that I can't watch them.

Actually, CSI has caused prosecuting offices a lot of trouble in the past couple years. Juries want the kind of evidence from those shows IRL, which is absurd.