Generally speaking, the salary given to interns by litigation-based law firms is about 3,000 yuan, and that of corporate law firms is about 4,000 to 5,000 yuan. For high-end non-litigation law firms, there are also many new law firms with a price of 8,000 to15,000 yuan. Of course, in addition to the salary, the guidance lawyer also has private subsidies. Generally speaking, about 3000 yuan is normal. In some second, third and fourth tier cities, it is common for interns to earn 500 to 1500, and some even don't pay. Foreign investment is out of the discussion.
Second, this situation is really not conducive to attracting talents.
The lawyer industry is a very difficult industry to get started. I don't mean the judicial examination, but there is a difficult transition period after entering the business. Many people change careers if they don't succeed. Many people will not choose the legal profession from the beginning, because they are afraid of this transition period, especially law school graduates with high academic qualifications. Because they can easily find some better entry-level jobs, they generally don't choose the legal profession. Some people who bite the bullet and choose the legal profession have also changed careers because of the difficult transition period in previous years, mainly because of the big gap in their hearts. What do you think of a master's or doctor's degree from a prestigious school giving you 3000 yuan? Other students are all 8000+ or state-owned enterprises and civil servants, and they can't persist without certain perseverance. Moreover, such people are relatively easy to quit their jobs and find a new home quickly.
Third, the low salary of junior lawyers is inevitable.
Ordinary enterprises or civil servants generally do not directly create profits, so it is difficult to directly link the salaries of civil servants with the profits created. Generally, they will give a relatively average salary, and some professional positions will be slightly higher, but the lawyer industry is different. Your salary depends entirely on the value you create, and you get more for more work (non-litigation and the performance of the company law firm is not obvious). Junior lawyers have no fixed source of cases, can't handle cases independently and can't hand them over to law firms. ), the law firm values your income-generating ability and doesn't care about your potential at all, because in the future, you are awesome, mainly earning money by yourself, and you may leave the law firm at any time (the mobility of lawyers is not generally large), so the 3,000 yuan given by the law firm means that the value you create is less than or equal to 3,000 yuan (how much do you think you are worth? ), of course, if you can really attract big customers, there will be commission in addition to salary.
Fourth, people from other industries infiltrated the lawyer industry.
Because in our country, as long as the undergraduate students pass the judicial examination, they can be lawyers, and the threshold is as low as the ground, so now the proportion of lawyers in other industries is really not low, and we have to admit that in many fields, what they do is not worse than those who are trained. Because they change careers, are modest in learning attitude, have low expectations for salary, and are fully prepared for hardship, this further squeezes those who are trained in classes, have poor academic level and are really arrogant.