Life of a Contract Attorney
The life of a contract attorney is not as terrible as many in “Temp Town” make it out to be. At least to this optimistic blogger, who works as a contract attorney, there are many benefits to life as a contractor, such as flexibility, control of when one works, a generally excellent wage rate, and low stress compared to the peers working and slaving away at large and small law firms.
The legal field has been greatly saturated over the years with multiple tiers of law schools continuing to graduate all sorts of lawyers with different levels of qualifications. Needless to say, there is a significant oversupply of attorneys and simply too many lawyers vying for too few permanent attorney positions available, even in the land of attorneys like Washington D.C. With the rapidly growing trend of using contract attorneys to perform many of the major law firms’ legal tasks, there is a growing need for contract attorneys. While some embrace this contract lifestyle, there is a large portion that disapprove of this position and constantly bemoan their existence, rather than feel fortunate for this golden parachute line of work that does not exist in many other fields. It is unfortunate that in every circumstances there will always be naysayers.
