Originally Posted by The Spoon:
“not necessarily...a lot of lawyers are paid nowhere near what the public expect. if you look at the job ads in the Law Society Gazette, you'll find a lot of posts don't pay that much.
however, she is not in the category of people who need to apply for jobs, people would make direct approaches.
if SAS likes her as part of his team, you'd expect he'd make it worth her while. he knows the worth of people in financial terms and we can all see that she's a quality act.”
She was a partner at Herbert Smith, she would have been getting paid exactly what a lot of the public think those kind of lawyers to get paid.
It's the small firms and things like criminal, family and residential property that tend not to bring in the big bucks.