Someone with the drive and intelligence to make it in big law (i.e. a far above average lawyer) is probably not going to be making the salary of an average programmer.
Depends on the lawyer and the programmer. I was on the lower end of big law and I'm on the upper end of programming.
Biglaw pays 200k in high CoL areas where Big-N tech workers start out at 200k.
I work in tech in a high CoL area, and sure senior engineers and eng managers are making 200k+ total comp. SWEs with <5 years of experience are not starting out over 200k.