This. I did a law school clinic at Legal Aid Housing and they are hiring but nobody is applying due to the low pay and insane workload. Each lawyer there has a caseload of 50-80 clients at any given time. With that many clients at once, it’s extremely difficult to give your full attention to every one of your clients. It’s an important job, but unfortunately the pay is too low to attract many attorneys, many of whom are 6 figures in debt.
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This. I did a law school clinic at Legal Aid Housing and they are hiring but nobody is applying due to the low pay and insane workload. Each lawyer there has a caseload of 50-80 clients at any given time. With that many clients at once, it’s extremely difficult to give your full attention to every one of your clients. It’s an important job, but unfortunately the pay is too low to attract many attorneys, many of whom are 6 figures in debt.