Posted on 08/16/2010 4:42:02 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
The angry rants first surfaced last summer on an anonymous New Jersey blog.
Law school is a “scam,” the blogger wrote. Administrators are greedy “charlatans” who could not care less about education, and students are but “hapless lemmings” who have been tricked into paying a fortune to enter “America’s most overrated, miserable and saturated industry.”
Within months, the blog was drawing up to 5,000 unique readers a day, many of whom praised the anonymous writer — known only as Law is 4 Losers — as a hero for exposing the lies they say they, too, were fed about secure jobs and generous incomes.
The blogger is Scott Bullock, a 2005 Seton Hall University School of Law graduate who agreed to reveal his identity to The Star-Ledger for this article. Yet Bullock, whose outrage stems from graduating with more than $100,000 of debt but meager job prospects, says he is merely tapping into a groundswell of resentment against the nation’s law schools.
As they enter the worst job market in decades, many young would-be lawyers are turning on their alma maters, blaming their quandary on high tuitions, lax accreditation standards and misleading job placement figures. Unless students graduate from schools like Harvard or Yale, they “might as well be busing tables,” Bullock said.
“It’s really just a big Ponzi scheme,” said Bullock, 33, of Bridgewater. “They’re just cranking kids out for $45,000 a year.”
School administrators, who admit to keeping tabs on these so-called “scam blogs,” which now number in the dozens, bristle at the charge that they run diploma mills. Not every graduate can land a six-figure job at a big-name law firm — especially during the current downturn — but many still find fulfilling careers in and out of the legal field, said Claudette St. Romain
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lol did you find this on fark?
Yep, we are over saturated with lawyers, which is why so many frickin’ laws get passed, to make work for out of work lawyers.
So sue the schools and stop bitching! Didn’t they learn anything?
They must not be good lawyers. I wish I had a law degree.
This is too damned funny! SUE THE LAW SCHOOLS!
Ol Bill was right..:)
Sue them. That’s what they taught you.
Most degrees are scams nowdays. I am surprised to find law degrees are one of them though. Used to be...doctor,lawyer, engineer...were the big three you couldn’t go wrong with.
That was their final lesson on the practice of Law.
A hundred years ago, if this was the British Empire, all those lawyers would had lived overseas to administrate the laws of Her Majesty.
LOL!! He just got a real world education and it only cost him $150,000 or so.
“So sue the schools and stop bitching! Didn’t they learn anything?
You gotta pass the bar exam before you can sue. I wonder ho the Seton Hall grads are doing at that?
Not enough ambulances to go around?
not true
there were badly paid attorneys 40 yrs ago when I was just out of engineering school
the pay distribution for lawyers is very skewed
a small number of very high paid who get a lot of publicity
quite a few middling
surprising number quite low
That’s funny, I know two young people that just graduated for Georgetown Law School in DC. One male and one female. Both had no trouble getting jobs with big law firms in New York making a very good salary.
I used to want to be a lawyer until I learned they don’t make that much.
A few do, but most don’t.
Yeah, I’m doing alright with engineering. I’m not making Warren Buffet kind of coin, or even an average doctor, but it’s all good.
Georgetown Law School is considered to be “elite”.
The school should send a letter back: “Life-lessons are the most valuable....”
“The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers!”
What a shame the classics aren’t studied more...
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