By: DOLAN MEDIA NEWSWIRES//April 11, 2013//
By John Streby
Dolan Media Newswires
A fat paycheck is not the only measure of a successful legal career.
In a recent opinion piece in Michigan Lawyers Weekly, writer David Fink asserted that state’s judges deserve a pay raise because otherwise their so-called “below average” salaries will narrow the field of aspirants to the “very wealthy” and “the very unsuccessful, who can’t do better in private practice.”
I believe that this view of lawyer success is elitist, narrow-minded and insulting to the vast legions of lawyers who — for a variety of reasons — don’t generate six-figure incomes.
I’d like to offer my own list of the attributes of a successful career:
John Streby is a Flint, Mich.-based bankruptcy and divorce attorney.