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Lawyers Mad at Law Schools Over Lack of Jobs

Yet applications for fall rose 2.2%

By Alp_Arslan,  Newser User

Posted Aug 24, 2010 9:51 AM CDT | Promoted on Newser Aug 24, 2010 12:02 PM CDT

(User Submitted) – As with most other professions, recent law school grads have met with a harsh employment market ... and some of them are mad at law schools for "misrepresenting" the wealth-producing, exciting, and glamorous careers they were expecting and don't have. The woman behind UnemployedJD.com has gone on a hunger strike. Others have started blogs (with names like "Scammed Hard" and "Shilling Me Softly") to navel gaze about their misfortune.

Despite glum prospects—one economist quoted in USA Today says, "We are entering the age of the overeducated American, the person with college degrees who cuts hair, trims trees, drives trucks"—the number of law school applicants for this fall's entering classes rose 2.2%. Go figure. Read the full article.

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bobmom
Oct 29, 2010 10:49 PM CDT
Too many undecided and unemployed (most don't even apply) undergrads enter law school because they're bright, educated, and looking for a place to hide for a few years. Many don't want to be lawyers - they just want to escape the reality that they have little to offer an employer who is looking for a select few candidates with marketable (i.e. profitable) skills. Art history, Psychology, and American lit majors need not apply. Few realize that, even if they do get a prestigious job with a blue stocking firm, they will then be locked up in a research and litigation room for 60-80 hours a week and never get to meet a client or enter a courtroom for the first five years. Most will never make partner. Those that do will have forsaken any kind of family life.
collegesteve
Oct 21, 2010 10:28 PM CDT
To the law student who wants a tuition refund. You must be such a wacko to request a refund that it has to be better for you not to think of entering the legal profession. College has never promised employment after graduation: it never has and never will, and to think so is pure lunacy. Get your law degree, take your lumps and please, whatever you do, don't become a lawyer. You will fail miserably.
Cat-Lover
Aug 25, 2010 4:41 PM CDT
Law school grads are angry at law schools for "misrepresenting" job opportunities in their chosen career? You're kidding me, no? I'm mad at law schools for producing lawyers.
 

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