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US jobs shrinking - for lawyers
2007-09-26
Posted by:lotp

#14  CLINTONISM > surname/label for WILFUL-DELIBERATE BUT PDENIABLE ANARCHY, i.e. no one nor anyone in Public Authority can punish anyone regardless of the crimes-malice committed andor admitted to. THUS TREASON = PATRIOTISM, CRIME/MALICE = LAW/ETHICS, FEDERALIST REPUBLICANIST = SOCIALIST GOVTIST, CAPITALIST = COMMUNIST, RIGHTIST FASCIST = LETIST COMMUNIST, .......................@etc.* JACK BAUER + "24" TV Show > All Life and Existence is the next 24 hours; GINA DAVIS vs TOM HANKS giving a fellowing team member opposing signals in "A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN". WHEN "CRITICAL MASSES" ARE REACHED AND EXPLODE, THE END RESULT IS GLOBAL TOTALITARIANISM + GLOBAL ANARCHIC-MAFIA-NEPOTIST STATE. $$$ decides whom rules + defines what is "justice/law", NOT the Voters = the People.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-09-26 20:13  

#13  Some are taking temporary contract work, reviewing documents for as little as $20 an hour

why can't I ever find these guys, damn.

Posted by: Jan    2007-09-26 19:33  

#12  Along similar lines, an honored B-school prof used to tell his classes that MBAs who are neat, attractive and only of middling ability would do well in banking.
Posted by: lotp   2007-09-26 19:02  

#11  Actually, as someone pointed out tonight, the last graduate in the class at law school is usually called "your honor"...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-09-26 18:41  

#10  I like the idea of a Lawyer who sues the hell out of other lawyers and gets paid by commission and/or by the government.
Posted by: Red Dawg   2007-09-26 16:36  

#9  ...My fiance's ex-husband is a lawyer - and a good one, too - who may have found a way around this: he's gone into Professional Responsibility, which means he defends other lawyers.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2007-09-26 15:01  

#8  Good, we need more engineers, not professional liars.
Posted by: Bugs Hupusose2306   2007-09-26 14:12  

#7  What did the lawyer say to the doctor?

Would you like fries with that?
Posted by: Unutle McGurque8861   2007-09-26 13:08  

#6  I like to point out to undergrads torn between medicine and law that if you go to medical school and graduate last in your class, you're called 'Doctor' and you get to do what you set out to do: take care of patients.

Whereas if you go to law school, head filled with thoughts of arguing great cases before the Supreme Court, being the next Perry Mason, etc., and graduate last in your class, you'll be lucky to be doing DUI cases.
Posted by: Steve White   2007-09-26 11:20  

#5  Overproduction of lawyers has been a problem for decades. I remember reading in the early '80s that many a law school graduate was driving a taxi, while engineers (still) were fully employed upon receiving their BS.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-09-26 10:47  

#4  1,116,967 lawyers per ABA. That's 30% more lawyers than doctors or police. If performance artists made the law, then I am sure there would be more than a million well paid screeching, poo flinging artistes.
Posted by: ed   2007-09-26 10:13  

#3  Q. What do you call a thousand dead lawyers?








A. A good start.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2007-09-26 09:41  

#2  Best news I have heard all week.
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-09-26 09:25  

#1  And many are blaming their law schools for failing to warn them about the dark side of the job market.

I predict a fine future in the legal profession for them. Their first case could be...sue their law school.
Posted by: tu3031   2007-09-26 09:18  

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