Lawyers are a dime a dozen, congress is full of them.
Now if we could just keep lawyers out of government. Biggest bunch of screwups I’ve ever seen.
Lawyers are running fishing commercial to find clients for malpractice suits against Doctors, Hospitals and Drug companies.
I am waiting for the same type of commercial to find victims of bad lawyers. Sharks eating sharks, not that will be fun.
The lawyer woes need to trickle up to government now.
The big salaries they are talking about in this came with big city, big firms. Up or out anyway, so very brief time with the salary, taxed at 50% in NYC, and then the rent and cost of living ate up the rest. Hard to believe, but it was not such a great deal even in the 90’s with starting salaries in the 90’s. Hard to believe they hit 160k tho!
They should take a tip from those famous Harvard Law grads Michelle and Barry - go into comunity organizing!
They should take a tip from those famous Harvard Law grads Michelle and Barry - go into comunity organizing!
Socialize lawyers, not medicine.
I blame all the stupid prime time attorney drama’s on TV giving young folks a false sense of what being a lawyer really is.
You know things are pretty screwed up when there was more lawyers in law school in New Jersey then practicing doctors in the whole state.
Good.
“
As the profession lurches through its worst slump in decades,
with jobs and bonuses cut and internal pressures to perform rising,
associates do not just feel as if they are diving into the deep end,
but rather, drowning.
“
That’s the general view on a local “business-oriented” radio show on
Sundays here in Mid-Missouri.
Sad that this didn’t happen before lawyers (along with the worst of
the unions) did their best to drive industry out of Missouri/USA .
Man, I could barely read that article for all the tears! Ha!
““Lawyers are famous for having high levels of depression and anxiety, but it has increased. Everybody’s morale is down.””
Good. Hope their suicide rate goes way up. They are cockroaches, and like cockroaches there are too many of them.
.....“If I start this way at 23, goodness knows what it will be like when I’m 40.” ....
The outcome will be the same either way. You are a spinster destined to live a life without love or family. In San Francisco you are but female detritus
What are the statistics? Something like 30,000 new lawyers every year, but only 3,000 engineering grad students?
Even in our politically-correct, litigious society where the Law itself has become a form of tyranny, requiring piles of “legal experts” for any issue - the market is saying “there are too many of you!”
Great news .....
We have way to many lawyers and they are always looking to insert themselves in places they never used to be. Trying to gin up more work for themselves. Parasites, leeches
great news along with Martha Coakley losing.....another lawyer loser. Scott Brown is not a lawyer
Some of the enterprising unemployed lawyers should go to DC and become lobbyists ... for tort reform.
I am an attorney.
For the most part, life after law school has never been the pollyannish caricature shown above. For the top of the class a the top-tier schools, there may have been jobs waiting after law school. But, for the vast majority of law schoool graduates, law is like any other field — you have to start at the bottom, put in your time, earn your keep, and work your way up.
Starting salaries for fresh law school grads (at least in Texas) can be $50K to $75K (reasonably good, but certainly not exorbitant). Many attorneys start off doing unstable temporary work for a good hourly wage — $30-$40 bucks an hour or so — while looking for a permanent gig. They don’t hand out $75K per year jobs on the street corner ... finding a job with a law degree and no experience can take some time (particularly when every competitor in the market has the same degree, and likely more experience).
The earning potential for attorneys is good ... but you don’t just waltz out of law school and into a $150K job. It takes time, it takes work, it takes diligence ... just like any other industry.
FYI — this is not intended as a complaint, but a reality check for budding attorneys and non-attorneys that think the life of a law school graduate is like it looks on TV. I believe it is a good thing that most attorneys have to pay their dues.
SnakeDoc
The law is not a productive profession at all. It is friction on the engine of commerce and productivity.
If you raised taxes on lawyers (especially on huge awards) you would see wild economic growth.