Re: Criminal Law Career

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Before you become a "defence" attorney, you might want to
learn how to spell it.

On 11/08/06, Andrew wrote:
> I'm interested in criminal law and would like to become a
> public defender after I pass the bar. But they have very
> low salary and I was wondering what opportunities there
> are to make bigger salary after some years of experience
> as a public defender, say as a private criminal defence
> attorney? How is the demand for private criminal defence
> lawyers, and how much more salary do they make? Basically
> what I'm trying to figure out is what avenues of salary
> advancement there are for public defenders in criminal
> defence field, and how competative and difficult would
> they be.