The law.com website is one of the biggest legal websites around. They have published yet another article dealing with the scamblog movement and our battle against the fraudulent employment statistics used by law schools.
And over at the ABA Journal site, Professor Henderson has weighed in with an excellent scambusting article with lots of graphical goodies showing the decline of the legal job market and how it really started before the Great Recession.
Good work on both articles.
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If you read the first article, the woman quotes from a source that says the scam blogging community consists of a "small minority" of underemployed and unemployed attorneys. This comment regarding underemployment/underemployment suggests that us "losers" of the law comprise a very small subset. That is an absolutely false suggestion as it impacts many individuals, including tier 1 grads.
ReplyDeleteThe first article has a few errors. Overall, it helps in spreading the word. As far as Henderson goes, I do not trust him. He told me that "most NYLS students are not taking on much debt because they come from wealthy families."
ReplyDeleteWhich means it is okay to charge Ivy League prices for a TTT, right?! By the way, he was DEAD WRONG on this count.
http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/grad-debt-rankings/page+2
For the NYLS Class of 2010, the average student loan indebtedness - for those incurring debt for law school - was 119,437; 83 percent of the class took on such debt. If this supposed "legal rebel" is not aware of this simple fact, how can we trust him to side with students?
Scam bloggers are "not the type of lawyers who would normally be listened to with respect to ideas for reforming an aspect of the profession." Maybe the "Professor" should tell her students at orientation that many of them will fall into this category. That about ten of their fellow graduates will be offered six figure salaries to work for firms with lawyers that "count," but the rest will be lucky to make half of that. Oh, and be sure to mention that even the lawyers that don't count still have to repay their six figure debt.
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