Law School Discussion

Cal IS Hibbard.  The 2nd post in the thread has been deleted, it was Hibbard commenting to "Cal" that he is the author, etc., etc.  Some blatant intertube marketing with 2 people conversing.  It was very obvious until the 2nd post was deleted, that was all I was commenting on.

Cal.Aaronson is actually a fellow law student who read my book and liked it.  His thoughts were his own, and I asked him to post his thougts in various forums and discussion boards.  I deleted my post so as to avoid this very thing.  That said, I do appreciate what Cal wrote about "Law School Fast Track."

As to Thane's remark:

PS:  To take issue with the subject heading, I know of one book that is the best.  = :  )

I'd have to agree--there are lots of good law school guides out there.

What do you think about all these people suing their law school because they can’t get a job?  I read an article recently (I put a short section of it below), and I’m kind of disturbed for a number of reasons—first there does seem to be a real problem of too many lawyers and not enough jobs, but also because law graduates seem to be rolling over and accepting that fact without creating opportunities.  (for example, some of my friends started up their own firm doing real estate title searches and are doing well (they won’t be uber-wealthy anytime soon, but they’ve got jobs—another friend of mine found an untapped niche in Florida’s insurance defense field and is also doing well.)  My point is this—there is a problem (I can see that, just like the rest of you), but is it really the fault of the law school?  After all, we did sign up for it—and we signed our names to those promissory notes.  Tell me what you think. 

One popular medium is the "scam blog," where indebted, unemployed attorneys accuse law schools of being little better than tuition-sucking diploma mills. (Sample blog title: Shilling Me Softly.) The author of one popular, if histrionic, such blog describes his law school as a Ponzi scheme.
Others have taken, perhaps inevitably, to the courts. Kenneth Desornes, for instance, named his law school in his bankruptcy filing. He asks the school to "[a]dmit that your business knew or should have known that Plaintiff would be in no position to repay those loans."  http://www.slate.com/id/2272621

I think one major misconception about law schools is that your high profile, high paying career will be handed to you on a silver platter--which is just not true.  As with anything, you've got to work at it.  The jobs are there--it just takes effort to get to where you want to be.  I'm at the tail end of law school right now, and it's been a rough road--but I'd say that it was most definitely worth it.  Like most people (probably), I had a good job before starting, and I'm currently experiencing the horrors of student debt--but that J.D. degree is always something to fall back on--and my earning potential is much much higher than it was before.