This one is for you Truean:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bunch-young-lawyers-suing-law-195616601.html
A group of unemployed Brooklyn Law School graduates are suing their alma mater for fraud and negligence in grossly misrepresenting employment rates and salary prospects.
If I were the judge, then they would win this law suit. The law schools lied and I still have my lying brochure saying "90% of our graduates make $120,000 9 months after graduation." It's glossy and probably constitutes consumer fraud in Ohio.... This was never true. Literally one person in my class makes this much at Jones Day. That's it.
None of you should ever go to American Law Schools, ever. Should you decide to, you will thank me politely for the favor of shattering all your naive starry eyed dreams until you come to your senses. They are places where worthless theoretical busy work is done. You are to message me before you consider this life ruining choice. Here is the site where you can actually get the truth:
http://abovethelaw.com/ They will not teach you how to be a lawyer, they will teach you how to please incompetent professors, whom I have beaten the living dogshit out of in open court, because they know nothing.... In fact, many of them aren't even licensed to practice law in the state they teach in and they don't have to be.
The legal profession in this country is collapsing and the people in charge are too stupid to notice.
Scalia is the biggest moron of them all and should retire because he is so out of touch with the world it's not funny. There is no work for young lawyers, but he tells them not to work too hard? I have new graduates begging me for anything, but I can't really help them. Nor can my boss. There are no jobs.... The market isn't that bad, it's worse but Scalia is too dumb to notice/doesn't want to notice. His head is even more firmly up his ass than usual.
There is no future for a young person in law. No fortune, no fame, just fall. In addition to the fraud, those law firms which stood for 100 years without ever really firing anyone, are now firing partners. There was never any basis to the law schools' fraudulent claims, but now they can't hide it because the market sucks that bad.... You're telling me an entire school full of lawyers didn't know better? Just let the morons in marketing run buck wild huh? Then of course, let's say you get a job, do it well, and somehow get clients. Good luck actually getting paid what you're owed/worth.
If you're a new graduate, then you're only possibly going to get entry level jobs at firms. Odds are, you do not know enough to go it alone. Ask yourself if you've ever even heard the word "garnishment" in your classes. No? How about CSR (court supervised release aka bail). You're fucked. Concerning a firm job, the problem is, firms have fired thousands of attorneys who have years of experience on you. Your resume will not hold up to theirs. Thankfully I had tons of clerking experience back when I graduated law school, which means I actually knew my head from my ass. Think, who are they going to hire, the new kid fresh out of law school or the guy with 5 years experience from that other firm.... Yeah... This was never a problem in the legal profession before....
See, schools and colleges have been lying like hell for years.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505266_162-57369462/sat-score-scandal-raises-concerns-over-rankings/ As long as they get to show their bosses pretty numbers, then everything is rosy for them. Doesn't matter that the numbers are all bullshit. That's a problem for some other time. Hopefully this is some other time and someone will forcibly pull heads out of asses and this crap will stop.
The problem with these lawsuits is that they were until recently considered career suicide, but I guess if you can't have a career anyhow, then what've you got to lose?
Your first wasted year of law school: roughly....
In "Property" (real property) class, you will not learn what a quick claim deed is, or a warranty deed. You will not know what a transfer on death deed or transfer on death affadavit is or what you need to do in order to do anything with them (including when the person dies). You will not be told what a mechanics' lien is. You will not be told what a notice to commence (construction work) is. You will spend a lot of time with seldom used concepts from hundreds of years ago in England. You will be confused by future interests only to never use them in legal practice. You will skim over landlord tenant law in theory but will never reference the state law, which governs it. This means the stuff you agonize over learning will be utterly useless and something you cannot use in court.
In "Criminal Law" you will learn the model penal code, which is closely followed by the state of New York, but is not in many states, including Ohio. You will learn general things but otherwise be completely incompetent to deal with a criminal case. They will not tell you what a rule 29 motion is (basically saying the government has no case). They will not tell you about plea bargains, though most criminal cases are solved by such. They will not tell you about DUIs though much of your business will likely come from this.
In Contracts Law, you will not cover your state's contract law, but rather the UCC which while somewhat useful, is trumped by your state legislature often in important ways. In Ohio it is ORC 1300, which was never mentioned in my classes. If there is a difference between the UCC and the state law, then you are responsible for it, but they will never tell you this.
Civil Procedure is actually about right. Pretty hard to screw that up.
Legal writing will teach you how to write for a law professor and how to piss off a common pleas court judge. They will not deal with your individual state's citation system but only with the blue book system, which your state may or may not use in its courts.
I could keep going, but the gist is, it's worthless.
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