In a compromise, however, House leaders agreed to appoint a special study commission to examine pay and try to come up with a way of ensuring better salaries for state attorneys. Former Middlesex prosecutor David Linsky, now a state representative for Natick, said the pay guarantees are needed to keep seasoned attorneys from leaving public service for lucrative private practices. While those salaries are still far below what those lawyers would earn practicing for private clients, for some it would mark a big bump up in pay. Each year the state s district attorneys lose hundreds of prosecutors, lured away by higher private-sector pay. The future of the initiative is uncertain.
Proposals often go to study committees to die.
Linsky said he will work hard to make sure that does not happen here. It is my intention to make this happen.