not entirely fair to portray all legal aid attorneys as worthless. Depending on region, legal aid jobs are some of the hardest to get and subject to intense competition from highly motivated intelligent people who actually want to help other people.

I say this because my sister, a lawyer in NYC went through about 2 years of an application process to get into a legal aid job.

She said it was way harder and way more competitive to get into this job than applying to a much better paying (like 3 times the salary) corporate job at some of the top firms in town.

The legal aid jobs are low paying, but are subject to intense competition because of court time and actual trial practice as a lawyer, which you will see a lot of, and there are usually limited positions and money for such jobs.

All this said, this is in NYC where there are dozens or legal aid lawyers based on the population, locally where I live I believe there are like 5 in the whole state, which has one 10th the population of NYC. In benhogans region could be a completely different standard of quality, but I wouldn't write off all court appointed lawyers simply because they happen to be court appointed.

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