re: How much does an "average" Car Accident Lawyer in Louisiana make per year?

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It takes more than 43 hours to bill 43 hours. Especially at the larger firms with more hands touching files.

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Not PI but i know a girl working for a big firm in NOLA . She bills 60hrs a week and MAYBE works 35-40 hrs. she is billing insurance companies.

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He died. Wife took over. Let’s just say, she doesn’t have a business mind.

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You're clueless.

She never took over and had no interest in taking over.

The business was pretty much closed by the time he passed because it's located in a shithole where the residents have target practice at each other ever night. Covid finished it off.

Dumbass.

Good luck with PI and workers comp cases in South Carolina. The legislature appoints all judges and comp commissioners here and the most successful attorneys are, surprise, the legislator-lawyers. You've got the PI mills here as well, but the really lucrative cases go to a handful of politicians.

Uuuh, we’ll get Gordon has a Ferrari so I’m guessing he clears at least $20m a year.

Lawyer salaries are all over the place. Id say most lawyers struggle to clear 150k or more in their entire careers.

This is a very accurate summary and the lawyers in the second group are the only ones you would want to hire if you were actually seriously injured and the party at fault won't pay. There are not a lot of these types of firms, but they do very well, justifiably so.

The first group, the high volume billboard types, run claim handling mills and most of their cases are dubious soft tissue stuff. They know their clients are dishonest to a degree, but we don't have loser pays in the U.S. so there is little downside to filing a frivolous lawsuit, and they are back stopped by state court judges who used to do plaintiff work before running for judge, and who take campaign donations from the plaintiff bar. Insurance companies settle and give these firms checks purely out of cost benefit considerations. You've got to either be a huge bleeding heart or an absolute mercenary to do this work long term and make good money doing it. The actual faces on the billboards who make the most just do marketing and business development, they don't do the legal work.

The last group, the solo guys looking for that one big score, that's got to be a turbulent, boom or bust existence. I know some of the lottery winner types. They are the exception not the rule.

Most licensed lawyers either don't actually practice law, or don't make very much doing it.

The bigger question is how much extra is all this costing on our insurance premiums? 50-75% more?

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If you call Bart of McKernon, you aren't getting Bart or McKernon unless you potentially have a multi-million dollar settlement coming to you. You are going to get one of their just-out-of-law-school minions to work your case. Bart and McKernon get the biggest cut....law school kid gets a slice....you get the leftovers.

In short, if you hustle and build your empire, you're rich. If you are the one doing the actual case work, you aren't exactly making baller money.

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This. Name of the game for those types of firms is volume. Farm settlements as quickly and efficiently as possible

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First year lawyers in the larger firms in Baton Rouge and New Orleans are making 150k, including bonuses.

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Lol, not on the defense side they aren’t. And I strongly doubt that’s the case for the hamsters handling claims at places like Gordon.

Salaries in Louisiana lag so far behind other states it’s hilarious. The amount of people slaving away at mid tier insurance defense firms to barely clear 100k is unfathomable. Partner salaries are pretty low comparatively too.