[Hemingway's Ghost]

Law schools up here (MA) are cranking out JDs faster than the job market can handle. Now we have a situation where people incur massive debt to obtain a JD and can't even get a job in the legal field. AND I heard a cat on the train this morning, who was a paralegal, saying that the paralegals earned more than the newly-minted JDs anyway.

Then again, I guess fewer jobs for lawyers is a good thing for society.

[jagusafr]

25 years ago, there was one lawyer for every 327 people in San Antonio. The market’s only gotten more saturated, with people who have to hang their own shingle because they’re just not prepared to practice and firms don’t want to have to train them and pay them at the same time. Lots of the folks I deal with as an attorney and a judge should be suing to get their money back, because they obviously didn’t get the education they paid for.