A blog to vent about the evils of the legal profession, the law school scam, and being jobless with a JD. A blog about the legal profession and various aspects of it.
This is the most creative reaction to rejection I’ve ever seen. Above The Law reports that a 3L from the University of Virginia made a model of his law school entirely out of rejection letters from law firms. Check it out, because this is one creative 3L. Maybe he’ll get a job offer out this yet.
2,900 legal jobs lost in February. One journalist called it “a harsh dose of reality.” That’s what’s needed for everyone in law school today, a harsh dose of reality. Usually doesn’t hit until the loans are due.
I’ve put this clip up before, and I’m putting it up again because this is great and worth watching if you missed it the first time around.
Suze says this better than I ever could. Here’s what Suze Orman thinks about student loans. You go, Suze! It starts at the :50 mark.
A reader sent this article in. It’s interesting but really depressing, at least for the folks in India who took all the document review jobs. Seems computers can now do much of the document review work, and in ten years or so, they’ll be much better at it than humans. I think this is a great argument to close at least half of all the law schools. There simply won’t be enough work to go around, even if you’re willing to move to India.
Document review jobs are gone:
He estimated that the shift from manual document discovery to e-discovery would lead to a manpower reduction in which one lawyer would suffice for work that once required 500 and that the newest generation of software, which can detect duplicates and find clusters of important documents on a particular topic, could cut the head count by another 50 percent.
For those of you who have not visited the site Student Loan Justice, please take a moment and do so. There has been a lot of interest lately in defaulting, and you should know how the loan companies and Uncle Sam can screw you before you do so. This is from Student Loan Justice:
Congress removed bankruptcy protections, refinancing rights, statutes of limitations, truth in lending requirements, fair debt collection practice requirements (for state agencies) and even removed state usury laws from applicability to federally guaranteed student loans. Congress also gave unprecedented powers of collection to the industry, including wage, tax return, Social Security, and Disability income garnishment, suspension of state issued professional licenses, termination from public employment, and other unprecedented collection tools that are used against borrowers for the purpose of collecting defaulted student loan debt.
Concurrently, Congress established a fee system for defaulted loans that allows the holders of defaulted loans to keep 20% of all payments from borrowers before any portion of the payment is applied to principal and interest on the loan. In the absence of fundamental consumer protections, the defaulted borrowers’ only available recourse is to submit to a hugely expensive “loan rehabilitation” process whereby they are forced to make extended payments (which are almost never applied to the principal or interest on the loan), and then sign for a new loan to which additional fees are attached. This effectively obligates the borrower to a much larger debt than when the loan defaulted, often double, triple, or even more than the original loan amount.