More Legal Job Losses
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.
Suze Orman On Student Loans
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.
Computers Replace Lawyers
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.
TTTT Dean Talks Morals and Ethics
Following New York TTTT Albany Law School’s lead, Tttttttouro Law has agreed to cut its enrollment by a whopping 10 students. The two thieves deans noted that the job market for new JDs “continues to be rather lousy.” Yes, it continues to suck, we can agree on that. But I don’t agree with the number. You both should be closing, not cutting a paltry ten students each.
Tttttouro Dean Raful said cutting enrollment by ten whole students, “Is the ethical and moral thing to do.” A TTTT law school dean wants to talk ethics and morals? Dude, you don’t know ethics and morals from the hole in your ass. Every day you walk into your toilet and take money from a student who has virtually no chance to practice law, you’re not behaving in an ethical manner. You have no morals. The ethically challenged jack ass dean went on to say:
I don’t think the [job] placement situation is going to turn around for a number of years and I think we are concerned about the ethics of turning out quite so many students in debt when we know that not everyone can get a job to pay off that debt.
Well, that’s actually correct. But kind of hypocritical of you to say that, and only cut enrollment from 280 to 270. You need to cut it to 0. That’s the ethical and moral thing to do. But if you did that, you’d be unemployed. Closing would save 270 people from going into massive debt they can’t repay, depression, and unemployment. But better those 270 than you, right Dean?
See post below for yet another reason to shut these schools down. Computers are now replacing lawyers.
Charlie Needs Counsel
I rarely watch TV, however, I have watched Two and a Half Men a few times and I think it’s a great show. It makes me laugh, and I can forget about the law school mistake when I tune in. That being said, no way would I want to represent train wreck Charlie Sheen in his lawsuit against CBS.
Sheen is talented, but no matter how talented, he doesn’t realize that acting is not real work. Going to school for 7 years and having to use your brain doing tedious crap is work. Hanging out on a TV set acting with beautiful people and getting paid TWO MILLION dollars a week not only isn’t work, it’s hitting the lottery every week. And Sheen threw it all away because he couldn’t keep his mouth shut.
Sheen claims that he is no longer an addict / alcoholic because he passed a drug test which showed no drugs or booze were taken for 72 hours. He wants CBS to both apologize and “lick his feet.” Oh, and he wants a raise to THREE MILLION an episode. He made a lame attempt to apologize about his anit-semetic remarks about his former boss.
If he were my client, and I thank god he is not, I’d tell him that if someone is paying you two million dollars a week, you lick their feet, and you don’t insult them. You take the check they give you and thank them for it. Especially since you didn’t even graduate from high school and combined with all the drugs you’ve done, that means you probably can’t even read the check CBS gave you.
I think the best rehab for this overpaid fool clown troll would be to work a real job for a year, or hey, let’s see if he could do it for 72 hours.