Public defender attorney positions are union jobs with salaries tied
to a labor deal with one year remaining. The starting salary for public
defenders in the county is about $51,000 a year.

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keep in mind, to be an attorney its 4 years of college, then 2 - 3 years of law school, then you need to pass some insanely hard tests... in order to make 24.50 an hour.

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If they want ADA's, there is an easy solution... do the job for 5 years at 24.50 an hour, and 50% of your student loan debt is removed, at 10 years, all the rest is removed. So by 35, they have 10 years experience, and 0 student loan debt, and can go do whatever else they want to do with their career while they are replaced with new attorneys.

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As long as they offer shit wages, shit work hours, and basically shitty clients, they are going to never have enough.