Compensation for some public-interest law jobs is improving, but it remains far behind pay levels in private practice, according to a report by the National Association for Law Placement.

Pay rates for attorneys at civil legal services organizations and at public-interest organizations providing responses to NALP rose significantly since the organization did its last survey on the subject in 2018. But wages for public defenders saw only negligible increases in the same period, according to the latest NALP report.

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