tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3521318064826848712.post1935559800499778600..comments2023-10-19T04:51:53.516-05:00Comments on The Legal Dollar: Portrait of a Recent Law School Grad - Part 1Managing Partnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05130017520583425490noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3521318064826848712.post-72349035585837559782009-11-08T21:49:14.688-06:002009-11-08T21:49:14.688-06:001:23 - My sympathies to your wife! Her experience...1:23 - My sympathies to your wife! Her experience is very unfortunate, but pretty common. Unfortunately, potental law students seem like they just don't want to hear it or they try to make up some kind of excuse to dismiss it. However, even people with PhDs going to good schools (and I will be that she's in the top half of her class) are just not able to get employed. If students want to go to law school after knowing all the facts, then that is OK, but they don't seem like they are getting clear, accurate information - and that can have decades-long consequences.Managing Partnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130017520583425490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3521318064826848712.post-59715870900033031992009-11-07T01:23:07.072-06:002009-11-07T01:23:07.072-06:00Your blog is right on...my wife graduated in 2005 ...Your blog is right on...my wife graduated in 2005 from Vandy and spent 4 years looking for fulltime employment. She was told she was "underqualified" for attorney jobs because she was not in the top 25% of her class and she was "overqualified" for normal jobs because she had a doctorate degree. She is 160K in SL debt making $30K per year now. This profession is a joke. Also, I just heard Belmont in Nashville is opening a law school in 2011, what a joke!!! Belmont did a self serviing feasibility study which said there will be a shortage of attorneys by 2011, are you kidding me!?!?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com