Posted on 03/19/2016 7:51:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I thank God that he didn’t curse me with too many brains. If he had, I would hav wound up at some high power law firm, stuffed into a cubicle from 7 a.m. to 7p.m., and that’s Saurday. By my 35th birthday I would have been a divorced depressed burned out alcoholic living on Prozac and gin. And I would have been dumpd by the firm for fresh meat coming out of law school so they could repeat the process.
Obama has made sure that the best and brightest minds won't enter the medical profession.
You are right, our tort system is backwards. We should adopt the British system of loser pays.
Greeter: Hi, welcome to Costco. I love you.
Frito: Yeah, I know this place pretty good. I went to law school here.
Joe: You went to law school at Costco?
Frito: I know! I couldn't believe it either but luckily my dad was an alumnus so he pulled some strings.
If there wasn’t so many bad liars out there the three good ones wouldn’t have anything to do.
Let's do real tort reform, real tax reform, and real regulatory reform, and finish the job.
Gee, that means that lawyers will become an endangered specie? Not really. Seriously, there are far too many people going to law school and the market for lawyers is saturated. America has nearly 75% of all the attorneys in the world. I think we really do not need to be making more of them; we need to cull the current herd.
We need to up the H-1B visa quotas for lawyers and really screw them over.
Sure it did.
“The hard part is finding them because they are interspersed with the Saul Goodmans. But, they are out there.
Don’t knock Saul and his University of American Samoa law degree.
I liked his “I know a guy who knows a guy” approach. That was real customer service.
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My town has 3 schools graduating lawyers every semester. Most of them start work for less than I did with an engineering degree with 3 to 4 times the debt.
Princeton does not have a law school and I guess now it never will.
RE: We need to up the H-1B visa quotas for lawyers and really screw them over.
Here’s the problem with a law degree, unlike say, a Microsoft of CISCO certification, which are recognized worldwide — THEY ARE NOT PORTABLE.
You can pass the bar in California, but if the economy turns south there and the opportunities to practice law are elsewhere, it is uncertain whether your bar credentials are transferable to another state.
H1-B’s for lawyers are going to face an even bigger protective “wall” unless the foreigners can themselves pass the bar exams in some states where they are “outsourced” to practice.
And this will get worse....the off shoring
Who wants to be a doctor today?
There is an old joke about the only lawyer in an Old West town. He complained to a friend that he was starving as there was no business. His friend sagely observed "Then get another lawyer here."
Outside of the Corporate types, most lawyers cannot prosper if there is no contention between people.
Please be Yale or Harvard or Princeton or all of them. Every single law school.
It did for a few years a long time ago.
Unfortunately, Harvard and Yale law schools aren’t going anywhere soon (and I am skeptical that any “top” school will). But at some point the higher education bubble has to burst.
Part of the phenomenon you mention is the huge advancement in vehicle safety. There are less cases to make money off of, and the sharks are stealing each others’ prey.
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