I know someone who did law school career counseling at one point. The glut of lawyers has had a downward pressure on law salaries, but pay and even hiring tends

I know someone who did law school career counseling at one point. The glut of lawyers has had a downward pressure on law salaries, but pay and even hiring tends to be highly correlated with the tier of the law school a lawyer grated from. I'm not sure I'd call this class tribalism, so much as a great filter. People who get into top law schools tend to be super competitive and are going to tend to be competent as well, so you're at least partially filtering out people who are likely going to be willing to work for low compensation. If starting pay dropped low enough, these lawyers would be going and getting other jobs. My friend used to laugh about the low end internships complaining about why students weren't rushing to fill their position, and she had to constantly remind them that if their pay was even marginally close to the local minimum wage then her students had better options elsewhere.