tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834335945349958946.post8104613797320461869..comments2024-01-23T04:12:56.180-08:00Comments on My Law License: The Oprah Effect: It's Not Your Fault, It's The Law SchoolMy Law Licensehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487117416844299246noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834335945349958946.post-208232846922852092010-09-24T19:13:46.071-07:002010-09-24T19:13:46.071-07:00Take a veteran attorney accustomed to a six figure...Take a veteran attorney accustomed to a six figure salary. Now reduce their pay to 30-40k per year. Watch how they bitch and moan just as much as a recent law school graduate. What is the point of going into law? It is one of very few professions that can legally get 200$ per hour. To represent clients? To "seek justice"? If that is the goal, then show me an attorney (even an experienced one) making 35k per year who says, "I am just happy to be seeking justice for my clients while earning peanuts!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834335945349958946.post-4575272156838530412010-09-24T11:51:31.816-07:002010-09-24T11:51:31.816-07:00Brian,
Thanks for this. I'm one of those shi...Brian, <br /><br />Thanks for this. I'm one of those shiny new attorneys (licensed in 2008) and I struggled to find a job, and have basically given up on doing what I really wanted to do coming out of law school. But even I'm sick of reading whining blog posts by a bunch of self-entitled people in their 20s. Yes I've sat up at night and whined about my circumstances to my wife, but even I have the decency to keep those complaints between my wife and I. Sure I'm not doing what I thought I'd be doing when I finished law school, but I also don't know a hell of a lot of non-lawyers who get paid $30 an hour to review documents and play on the internet all day (where I was), or who have a job which in all likelihood will have them making hundreds of thousands a year someday if they hustle and network and play their cards right (where I am now.) What on Earth do I have to bitch about, compared to somebody in their 50s who lost their job and can't find a new one after years of looking because nobody will hire them, or someone who works two or three jobs every week but can barely put enough food on the table? <br /><br />I know humility is in short supply amongst lawyers, but these whiny kids would do well to try and keep people like that in mind before they hit the "post" button at the blogs they write on the shiny macs they bought with their student loan money.Noob Lawyernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834335945349958946.post-23630260861410453802010-09-23T12:27:37.369-07:002010-09-23T12:27:37.369-07:00Brian you often bang the "entitlement drum&qu...Brian you often bang the "entitlement drum"...but I really think that is a complete strawman that exists in your head and not in reality.<br /><br />I am gainfilly employed. That said I know a number of hard working attorneys who got laid off through no fault of their own and are looking to work. They like being lawyers and like working. They are not lazy.....I know it's fashionable and easy to make sweeping judgments about generations....I do not knw anyone who thought they would just pass the bar and watch the cash roll in...that's absurd. <br /><br />I applaud the scam bloggers for pointing the light at what is going on in the legal education market. It's not good for law students or the taxpayers'. Loan deafualts are the next big wave of defaults to come.....and who pays then?.....yes the taxpayer. Again, not good public policy.JPMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834335945349958946.post-12171532295028419982010-09-23T12:22:24.713-07:002010-09-23T12:22:24.713-07:00Surely Brian is not suggesting that the law school...Surely Brian is not suggesting that the law schools should get a free pass?<br />Is it good public policy to provide millions in government backed (taxpayers' backed) loans to law schools to pump out thousands more grads than the market for legal services can bear? I would suggest it isn't.jpmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834335945349958946.post-11645128442108404432010-09-23T11:43:40.264-07:002010-09-23T11:43:40.264-07:00I have never read a scamblog that complained about...I have never read a scamblog that complained about not getting a six figure job. I don't know anyone in law school who felt "entitled" to a six figure job. What the scamblogs criticize the law schools for is falsifying employment data to fraudulently show that if you graduate from law school you are more likely than not to get a secure job for reasonable pay. If the Career Services Office publishes figures showing that 95% of their graduates were employed after graduation in order to convince people to pay tuition to go to their school, when they know that number is false, that is fraud. Why are you defending fraud?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834335945349958946.post-64368012052250538572010-09-20T08:57:33.419-07:002010-09-20T08:57:33.419-07:00Almost 24 years doing this. It is the greatest jo...Almost 24 years doing this. It is the greatest job in the world except for when it is the worst job in the world.<br /> Two questions all new lawyers must ask themselves:<br /> 1. What would I be doing if I were not doing this? Personally, my future in major league sports, movie stardom, and international business "tycooning" was not very bright.<br /> 2.In the words of an older lawyer many years ago-"Baby it beats digging ditches!" Cry me a river.Juris Doctor Vinnie Boombatznoreply@blogger.com