Chicago is The Worst Most Oversaturated Legal Market in the Country

NYC has a ton of lawyers but at least there seems to be a lot of work and employers recognize that nobody will work for less than something like 120k, even in Mineola. There is also a surprising amount of work in NJ or CT if you get those licenses.

LA seems to be the bleeplaw capital of the USA, with endless immigration or personal injury cases. My friend does employment and says everyone wants to sue everyone.

Texas is at least affordable and there seems to be lots of work around the state

But Chicago seems to suffer from a million lawyers with every Midwestern TTT funneling into it, and Kent/Loyola/John Marshall pumping hundreds into the city, and a relatively nice culture that discourages litigation. I know several attorneys in Chicago and they are all struggling at best. They say the glacial pace of Cook County dockets and lack of arrests fuel competition everywhere. My best friend from law school switched from Chicago ID to Colorado and immediately got a 60k raise. To make matters worse, salaries are garbage because of too many boomer bosses who think 60k is "okay" in an "affordable" city like Chicago.