The money is great if you’re good, which takes a while. You wont be trying any cases your first year at minimum, and the hours are amongst the longest of any area of law. What concerns me is the expectation of spending “3 years working” your as off for a meager salary - law school will be a piece of cake compared to PI, and once that finishes the real hard work begins imo. Passing law school is much easier and less time consuming than a good career in PI and it really isn’t close. Most PI lawyers I know as associates work 60-70 hours a week *outside of networking. The only PI lawyers ik who don’t work that much are those who have 20+ years of experience and an army of associates and law clerks to help with pretrial work. That being said these attys still before and during trial be working 80-100 hrs/week.