Law School Discussion

Those numbers don't surprise me one bit. The market is bad right now, and may remain that way for years. I wonder, however, how many recent grads simply refuse to accept jobs that they think are "beneath" them? Do alot of young grads have a $$$ figure in mind, and refuse to work for less? I'm also surpised by how many grads refuse to go into solo practice. Don't get me wrong, I'm fully aware of how tough it would be to start up a solo practice fresh out of law school. But if I'd been looking for a job unsuccessfully for nine months, I'd take anything.

There are some jobs that aren't worth taking, or are actually bigger resume killers than being unemployed. The market is the market - if there were jobs out there worth taking, people would take them. There isn't some mass boycott of worthwhile jobs being turned down out of some sense of entitlement, as you seem to be implying. To the extent there are jobs out there that are going unfilled, the market has deemed them worthless.

obviously take the few core classes everyone finds helpful (business orgs, evidence) but if you are hard pressed for taking something else I recommend regulatory stuff like antitrust, securities reg, environmental, etc..  government is getting bigger, it only makes sense that more regulations will lead to more lit

It's kind of like around my school I have overheard 1L's heatedly debating among themselves cases they have recently read for torts or whatever.  In a year's time they will rarely be discussing cases they have been assigned (and if they are like me, rarely even be reading them). 

really?  cuz all I noticed was that people ASSUMED this kind of stuff when in reality it was some random person you didn't know even attended your school with the highest grades

it was probably pleaded at the trial level.  what case is this?