The Savannah office's seven full-time lawyers, average age 42, earn $24,250 to $52,000 a year.

A $250-an-hour lawyer who waits four hours has earned $1,000 just sitting there.

The public should not be led to believe that lawyers generally earn such amounts.

A practicing lawyer when convicted, he earned an advanced law degree in prison.

If that wasn't bad enough, no lawyer can earn more than $3,000 per year from the Judicare program.

Those lawyers now earn $25 an hour for work outside court and $40 an hour during a trial.

That's the kind of money that lawyers at white-shoe firms earn working full time.

But those lawyers earned a total of more than $4.8 million during the years in question, an average of $147,000 a year per lawyer.

That won't be true for long if Congress continues to allow judges' salaries to fall far behind what some top lawyers earn.

Some studies suggest that plaintiffs' lawyers earn less on average than they did before the movement to change the laws began.