New Data Reveals There Aren't Nearly Enough Jobs For New Lawyers, Yet Some Refuse To Believe It

[FarCenter]

A recent opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal offers a pretty dismal picture of the job market recent law school graduates.

"Nationally there are twice as many graduates as there are jobs," Chris Fletcher wrote in his op-ed (emphasis ours). "The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the economy will provide 21,880 new jobs for lawyers annually between 2010 and 2020; law schools since 2010, however, have produced more than 44,000 graduates each year."

However, some in the field are still refusing to admit there's a problem.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/legal-industry-job-data-2013-1

[d_r]

1. they can just sue each other

back and forth in a circle

[FarCenter]

4. That works so long as they have clients that will pay their bills

[el_bryanto]

2. Lawyering tends to attract people who already think they are special

And who are type A driven people. So it's not surprising that they assume that while half lawyers will end up unemployed, they won't be in that group.

Bryant

[TlalocW]

3. Ima gonna sue them

For saying that!

TlalocW

[KansDem]

5. They will learn as others have

After investing the time, effort, and expense in an academic degree, they will have to settle for making less money doing something else they don't particularly like doing.

An expensive (both monetary and spiritual) lesson in life. I wish them well.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

6. Law Schools

must be very profitable.

[L0oniX]

7. Ask yourself why all the ambulance chaser ads on tv.

It's a bottom feeding frenzy.

[Festivito]

8. A law degree opens up almost any job, not just law.

Also, we just bottomed out, slowly rising, and they're looking back two to three years ago when we were at or near bottom. 2010.

I think they're fishing for a new meme.