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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 04:18 PM Original message |
Clients Won’t Pay For What Law Schools Churn Out |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
1. I know a lot of lawyers that agree with the clients on this one. |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 04:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. For the amount of expense involved, that's a pretty frightening anecdote. |
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MountainLaurel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 06:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
19. My husband is a 3L and says the same |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. Some of us take a lot longer than three years to graduate. |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 04:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Thanks for sharing that- very interesting story and maybe more broadly indicative of... |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 05:42 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. I was a court reporter. Drove me nuts. |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 08:53 PM Response to Reply #16 |
30. I hear you- that's terrible and I'm sorry you had to put up with that b.s. |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 09:24 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. I stopped doing it in 1996. |
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catabryna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
3. Every newly minted lawyer needs a good legal assistant... |
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FloriTexan (481 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 04:48 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Yea, if he can find one... |
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catabryna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 05:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. We're not hard to find... nt |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 04:49 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. That's exactly right and then there's the office politics between the |
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FloriTexan (481 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 04:52 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. As a legal secretary.... |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 05:11 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Good for you. I was an in-house court stenographer in New Jersey and |
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catabryna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 04:59 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Been on both sides as I'm not formally trained |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 05:16 PM Response to Reply #3 |
15. I did that in the 90s and it was very lucrative in the top firms with the O/T - |
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catabryna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 05:44 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I prefer small law firms. |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 07:49 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. I actually liked it for awhile - I did trial work |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. Why did the lawyer cross the road? |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 07:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
21. So that he could see the Red Sox choke on TV at the bar across the street!!! |
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FloriTexan (481 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
8. Clients pretty much circumvent the hourly ratings anyway... |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
9. Law schools have created an oversupply |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 07:32 PM Response to Reply #9 |
23. they sure did. n/t |
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Jkid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
18. This will be a good opportunity for states to bolster their public defender programs. |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 08:08 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. It would be but there is no funding for it. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 08:16 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. This would also be a good opportunity to create a massive army of prosecutors. |
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mentalsolstice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 07:10 PM Response to Original message |
20. Been there, done that. It sucked big time. |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
22. Note to self: Reconsider law school. |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
27. I am a tax CPA in a private company and agree with this for CPA's. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
28. Too many babies. Not enough jobs. |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
29. One of the sad things about law schools is that people come out of those schools |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:09 AM Response to Original message |
32. kick for the night owls. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
33. Law is a racket. Look at what's at the top. Al Eato (Grimace), Thomas, Scalia. |
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