Imagine you are a student in a class at law school learning about the options that you may have if you decided to be an attorney. You are interested in helping people and want to earn a respectable salary. You learn that payment to court-appointed counsel is dramatically lower than payment to privately retained attorneys. In many instances, payments to court-appointed counsel are capped at a specific dollar amount despite the amount of work that a given attorney may put into a case. With this information in mind, but also wanting to help people but earn a decent salary, would you rather be a public defender or a private attorney? Explain.

What will be an ideal response?


Student responses may vary.

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