tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post1544312160707115393..comments2023-10-30T08:41:06.178-07:00Comments on Inside the Law School Scam: Candor LawProfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05174586969709793419noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-123695861878749602012-08-24T09:56:36.469-07:002012-08-24T09:56:36.469-07:00I think what is telling is UVA's 25 percentile...I think what is telling is UVA's 25 percentile LSAT. This year it is 164, a number it has not been since the class of 2005. In years past it was 167 and 166. The number has decreased lately due to a concerted effort to increase the GPA numbers but still.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-36336977513853029252012-08-24T07:25:39.648-07:002012-08-24T07:25:39.648-07:00I would suggest all of the conversations in the co...I would suggest all of the conversations in the comments here (save for the profanity laced tirades, off the wall comments, etc.) would be appropriate for a webchat with the Secretary of Education on student loans and higher ed financing. It is today (August 24) at 11 am ET. Ask the CEO of Direct Loans, Inc. your questions on the law school bubble and see if you get an answer: <br />http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2012/08/17/13337674-join-education-secretary-arne-duncan-for-a-live-web-chat<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-34932346379164367132012-08-23T21:54:53.358-07:002012-08-23T21:54:53.358-07:00it is amazing that there are no comments in that a...it is amazing that there are no comments in that article's comment section.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-53957624713819512962012-08-23T21:36:36.449-07:002012-08-23T21:36:36.449-07:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbQ4Zbigc5Yhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbQ4Zbigc5YAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-81945383319525771532012-08-23T21:07:40.707-07:002012-08-23T21:07:40.707-07:00Boy, this is a big improvement!Boy, this is a big improvement!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-50205617546843961732012-08-23T20:18:02.033-07:002012-08-23T20:18:02.033-07:00@7:33, thanks, I quite agree.
...@7:33, thanks, I quite agree.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />:-)Hey, wait uh minnit...noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-590963964605985852012-08-23T19:33:05.723-07:002012-08-23T19:33:05.723-07:00i don't know, but this will definitely make th...i don't know, but this will definitely make things a lot easier to follow! no more "10:15," "11:29," and so on, replete with scrolling all over the place to follow things. Shawn Spencer approves.Shawn Spencernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-40339725618125093542012-08-23T18:55:44.641-07:002012-08-23T18:55:44.641-07:00So, what's your ad revvies this month, man? U...So, what's your ad revvies this month, man? Up to $35 or so?What's yer revs, man?noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-65997500577707328672012-08-23T18:32:59.167-07:002012-08-23T18:32:59.167-07:00In any event, private student loans (as opposed to...In any event, private student loans (as opposed to those federally-guaranteed at the time) were subject to the bankruptcy of the borrower until 2005. I don't know about you, but Congress, at the behest of the banks, basically re-wrote my private loans for 2/3 of my legal education.Mr. Infinitynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-90557179137348286112012-08-23T18:27:37.967-07:002012-08-23T18:27:37.967-07:00Thank you. But next time, instead of calling him ...Thank you. But next time, instead of calling him a "Roman orator" try, "Greek Oralator".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-21529709462356503952012-08-23T18:25:04.034-07:002012-08-23T18:25:04.034-07:00Hey, uh, when did we get thread-embedded replies h...Hey, uh, when did we get thread-embedded replies here?Hey, wait uh minnit...noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-9921679662813336272012-08-23T18:23:17.308-07:002012-08-23T18:23:17.308-07:00"Back when I was at UVA there were far more a..."Back when I was at UVA there were far more applicants with high numbers than slots."<br /><br />So the women at UVA had low numbers? Doesn't sound too sound very PC to me.Hey, wait uh minnit...noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-51379742415708529012012-08-23T18:19:45.043-07:002012-08-23T18:19:45.043-07:00So, how did the reception go, LP? Still employed,...So, how did the reception go, LP? Still employed, I hope!Lois Turnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04940132718084602679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-62758050194631463102012-08-23T18:03:28.994-07:002012-08-23T18:03:28.994-07:00Heros are delicious.Heros are delicious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-85210844805812837992012-08-23T17:06:22.196-07:002012-08-23T17:06:22.196-07:00on a side note, why are there not more personal ba...on a side note, why are there not more personal bankruptcy attorneys? that is where the demand is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-31235546932333399082012-08-23T17:00:29.751-07:002012-08-23T17:00:29.751-07:00Yes, gaming the system and now we all know and tha...Yes, gaming the system and now we all know and thank you 4:45PM.<br /><br />Student Loan Debtors are criminal and ought to be thrown into a for profit and publicly traded on wall street debtors prison by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)<br /><br />America incarcerates more people than any other country in the civilized world, and for good reason. <br /><br />As two judges have said so far, Higher ED and law school is a wild gamble, and all who lose on that gamble ought to be severely punished until the grave for having lost that gamble, and the very idea that they can declare bankruptcy is an offense to all civilized morality.<br /><br />Institutional responsibility is always secondary to personal responsibility.<br /><br />It is a matter of morals and personal decisions during the second decade of life.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-39431585184666189202012-08-23T16:45:44.052-07:002012-08-23T16:45:44.052-07:00"[D]eliberate student deadbeats accounted for..."[D]eliberate student deadbeats accounted for a virtually infinitesimal proportion of bankruptcies. In the meantime, mainstream journalists who spent more time in reality than their trend-setting contemporaries uncovered some troubling (and real) trends while scouring bankruptcy filings. Of the small population of twentysomethings who did seek to use bankruptcy protection primarily to discharge student loans, many had been defrauded by fly-by-night "correspondence schools" that had forged the students' signatures and saddled them with staggering loans. They hadn't even known about them until they started getting hounded by collection agencies."<br /><br />LP, thanks for debunking the myth. i was always under the impression that massive unsecured SLs were discharged so many did it to game the system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-30034599177828981052012-08-23T16:26:47.898-07:002012-08-23T16:26:47.898-07:00@Mr. Infinity:
Professor Campos and also DJM are ...@Mr. Infinity:<br /><br />Professor Campos and also DJM are indeed zookeepers!<br /><br />You have nailed it!<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-78033576697439185342012-08-23T16:24:30.242-07:002012-08-23T16:24:30.242-07:00Mr. Infinity is a Hero!
Thank you Mr. Infinity, ...Mr. Infinity is a Hero! <br /><br />Thank you Mr. Infinity, because you are the voice of the truth!!!<br /><br />All of the scambloggers are 100% WRONG and you are my champion!<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-82766674937293634982012-08-23T16:19:12.004-07:002012-08-23T16:19:12.004-07:00Study: Longterm Unemployment Has Disastrous Effect...<br />Study: Longterm Unemployment Has Disastrous Effects On Health<br />Laura Bassett<br />lbassett@huffingtonpost.com<br /><br />WASHINGTON -- With 17 percent of the American workforce either unemployed or underemployed, experts predict that the scarring consequences of the recession -- not just on the bank accounts, but on the health and longevity of the jobless -- will be far-reaching and severe.<br /><br />Dr. Elise Gould, director of health policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, said in a forum on health and unemployment Friday afternoon that research shows that losing one's job can have a "powerful and negative impact" on the health of the jobless, leading to feelings of failure, depression, anxiety, notably increasing the risks of strokes, heart attacks and catastrophic illnesses, and potentially leading to premature mortality.<br /><br />"After wage losses, the most direct impact of unemployment is loss of health insurance coverage for those who had it in the first place," she said. "But this is only tip of the iceberg when we think about people's health. It's clear that many Americans are still hurting and will be hurting for a very long time."<br /><br />According to a research study conducted by William T. Gallo, professor of health policy and management at CUNY, the six- and ten-year risk of heart attack or stroke in people between 51 and 61 years old who have lost their jobs is more than double that of the employed. Gallo also noticed some stress-related changes in the health behavior of older jobless people: there was less physical activity and an increase in daily cigarette consumption among long-term unemployed smokers, an increased risk of a smoking relapse, and some increased drinking and weight gain, which increases the risk of diabetes and heart disease.<br /><br />Gallo said that even the risk or fear of losing one's job was just a strong a predictor as the actual job loss on an older person's overall health because of internal psychological factors.<br /><br />Kate Strully, assistant professor at the University of Albany, said the best way to help the longterm jobless cope with unemployment and ameliorate their health issues is to make job loss less traumatic and stressful by reducing the associated financial strain through unemployment insurance, job search assistance and career training.<br /><br />"We don't often think of unemployment insurance or job search assistance or so forth as a health policy," she said at the forum, "but given the links between psychological components of job loss, stress and disease, financial strain, it's quite possible that there may be health benefits that we currently aren't capturing related to these sorts of programs."<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-70286686753121037162012-08-23T16:15:47.413-07:002012-08-23T16:15:47.413-07:00I would memorize the following quotations. Then I...I would memorize the following quotations. Then I would recite them, in a clear, strong, and sincere tone, to the assemblage of eager-beaver 1Ls. Then I would fall to the ground and start foaming at the mouth: <br /><br />1. “Job opportunities will expand in the coming two decades. While the growing retirement level of the baby boom generation will impose an increasing burden on the country's social security system, those retirements represent increasing job openings in every field. That will be particularly so in law.” -- Don DeLuc, President and Dean, Cooley Law<br /><br />2. “Part of the value of legal education is its inculcation of analytic skills that translate well into many employment and leadership settings; part of the value of the law degree is its incomparable flexibility.” --Don DeLuc, President and Dean, Cooley Law<br /><br />3. “Talking in class, and other ways of throwing yourself into the mix, is a terrific, bad-consequence-free way of actually starting to practice at being a lawyer. Take advantage.” -- Professor Paul Horwitz, Alabama<br /><br />4. “We are not producing plumbers and bookkeepers, we are producing the leaders of our Society whose primary ability is the strength of their intellects. Law teachers hone the mind in a variety of ways through a variety of methods.” --Professor Peter Bayer, UNLV<br /><br />5. "Students benefit from the scholar's ability to turn chaos into order and communicate both the chaos and the order to someone who hasn't done the same work. The students have to start with order and see how it is constructed from chaos and how to explain that before they can learn to do the same thing, which really, is what lawyers do for their clients." --Professor Marcia McCormick, St. Louis Univ.<br /><br />dybbukAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-37046626623443363542012-08-23T16:15:41.932-07:002012-08-23T16:15:41.932-07:00@3:38PM
If the boner can get a gosh darned real ...@3:38PM <br /><br />If the boner can get a gosh darned real editor to help out and stop using a small letter for the first letter of a last name before posting it, it might help just a bit.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-30790015138491540302012-08-23T16:12:33.124-07:002012-08-23T16:12:33.124-07:00"One of the biggest negatives of the scamblog..."One of the biggest negatives of the scambloggers is that they tend to rip apart anyone who may be of a different mind than them and as a result, they tend to make enemies. It is a fault of theirs I believe and it does not help their cause."<br /><br />The scambloggers, lead by Nando, the turd slinging Baboon, with JDPainter, his little chimp, zookeeper "professor Campos" and the angry baboons that want to eat JDpainter (whom Nando protects -- for now) can not touch me. <br /><br />http://gotolawschool.blogspot.com<br /><br />P.S. Go to the reception for the students, profe$$or, they are paying you over $100,000 for crying out loud! Mr. Infinityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11717941580620759484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-28749891279026283772012-08-23T15:38:29.834-07:002012-08-23T15:38:29.834-07:00curious LawProf thinks about this article:
http:/...curious LawProf thinks about this article:<br /><br />http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202568478875&slreturn=20120723182937Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-19079256969180571102012-08-23T15:35:24.389-07:002012-08-23T15:35:24.389-07:00@ Anon at 1:48
If (as I suspect) you meant "...@ Anon at 1:48<br /><br />If (as I suspect) you meant "fecesious" that was a pretty funny joke, I thought.Lois Turnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04940132718084602679noreply@blogger.com