Month: January 2011

Finally, some sense in this world. There were plans for THREE new law schools in New York and all have been put on hold. There are already 15 law schools in NY. The schools made the decision not to open because of:
an ailing economy, state government budget woes and doubts about whether there are enough legal jobs to support the new schools in addition to the 15 existing ones.

The three toilets New York was spared are: State University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island, St. John Fisher College in Rochester and SUNY Binghamton, which is only on hold until 2017-18.

St. John Fisher spent $25,000 on a study that claimed there was a demand for a new law school. Hell, I could have told them that there’s no need for another law school for $10,000. Or they could have figured it out for free, by reading the scamblogs, or asking the thousands of unemployed JDs roaming the streets of New York.

Deans at other New York law schools sprang to action at the thought of new toilets entering the market and possibly poaching from their pools of available suckers.The hypocrites wondered if, New York’s job market could absorb as many as 1,500 more law school graduates the three new schools could produce each year.

No it can’t absorb them, and we don’t need the 3,750 new graduates NY turns out now:
The state Labor Department has estimated there will be openings for just over 2,000 lawyers a year through 2016 in New York. And law firms have been shedding jobs in the last few years. There now are about 150,000 lawyers in New York, the most of any state in the country.

You just can’t make this stuff up. After graduating from law school 20 years ago, this tool took and failed the bar 7 times before finally passing. Wasn’t Einstein’s definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?

Well, it took two decades but he finally passed. But he’s still not going to be able to practice. New Hampshire won’t admit him because of both his outstanding debt and a few criminal indiscretions. They also weren’t impressed that he had been unemployed for the past 20 years. He must have been studying for the bar.

I’m going to have to side with New Hampshire on this one, this guy sounds like a total tool. He certainly doesn’t know how to win friends and influence people. Here is what he told the committee:

He didn’t enjoy a brief gig as a bartender, G.W. told the committee, and felt the job “was beneath me.”And, as far as paying off his student loans was concerned, “if I owed a measly $30,000, that’s an amount of money that certainly could be paid off with a, you know, $10-an-hour job or something of that nature,” he said. “But because there’s $120,000 worth of interest on that $30,000 principal, realistically, I need a good job in order to pay that off.”And I was trained to practice law; I wasn’t trained to do anything else. And I have no desire to do anything else at this point.”