If I could do it all over again, I'd be a personal injury attorney

Those guys must make a killing in a state like Louisiana. Think about it for a moment.

Minimum liability requirement in Louisiana is $15,000. Literally 90% of drivers on the road are looking at their phone while driving and a large number of them are slamming into the back of people at stop lights, intersections, etc.. If you've ever been rear ended, you know it doesn't take much to actually make you sore and hurt for a while afterwards and that's just from minor accidents. Think of how many car accidents result in broken bones, lacerations, torn ligaments/tendons, etc..

A person who goes to the doctor and has just soft tissue injuries that gets them referred to therapy for 3-4 weeks is usually going to end up exhausting the other guy's minimum liability limits if they get a lawyer who knows the ins and outs of the law.

$15,000 x 33% is $4,950 and that's assuming 100% of your stand-up, productive members of society clients just have minor injuries AND the other guy only has minimum coverage.

Now lets assume you're in a city like Baton Rouge and gain probably 3 new clients a week. That's 4,950x3 = $14,850 a week, on average, once all those cases begin to be settled. $772,200 a year would be enough to make me want to work with the lowest denominator of society for a living.

Am I wrong here? I'm ignorant to the personal injury law field so I could be completely missing something but my goodness I chose the wrong field to go into. I know we have more than a few resident OT lawyers who post here so tell me if I'm missing something here. Tell me why I shouldn't go to law school.