Law Schools Are Scam

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David Segal, Is Law School a Losing Game?  Deans say graduates are working. They don't say how many are at Home Depot. New York Times, Jan 9, 2011 (Sunday Business section).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09law.html?scp=1&sq=segal%20law&st=cse

Excerpt in the window of the print: Law schools, with their large lecture classes, can be cash cows for universities.

Quote:

"But the legal market has always been obsessed with academic credentials, and today, few students except those with strong grade-point averages at top national and regional schools can expect a come-hither from a deep-pocketed firm. Nearly everyone else is in for a struggle." Web page 2.

"Mr. Wallerstein is chatting over lunch one recent afternoon with his fiancée, Karin Michonski. She, too, seems unperturbed by his dizzying collection of i.o.u.’s." Same.

Finding only odd jobs after graduation and with a quarter-million student loan, Mr. Wallerstein "for his part, is not complaining. Once you throw in the intangibles of having a J.D., he says, he is one of law schools’ satisfied customers. 'It’s a prestige thing,' he says. " Web page 7.

My comment: A few years ago, I tried to help out in Law board of Mitbbs.com, answering questions as best I could--though I explicitly stated I was not a lawyer or a law student. I asked others to chip in, to no avail. Some Chinese, upset about my Taiwanese, drove me out. They insisted law careers were rosy for Chinese law students, dismissed my observation that few Asians were recruited as associates in white-shoe law firms in greater Boston area (they contended Boston was an anomaly and that everything was Kosher, especially in California). I hope they are right and that they have successful careers at present. God bless America.

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