tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post3152405737318167135..comments2023-10-30T08:41:06.178-07:00Comments on Inside the Law School Scam: A lawyer's storyLawProfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05174586969709793419noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-68749195580156357892012-11-11T19:47:16.399-08:002012-11-11T19:47:16.399-08:00It’s become somewhat of a rarity to find original ...It’s become somewhat of a rarity to find original online article content anymore. I’m very surprised to find this well-written impressive article. You have many logical points here that compelled me to consider your side. <a href="http://www.powerslawgroup.com/" rel="nofollow">Macon Lawyers</a><br /><br />James32http://www.powerslawgroup.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-60818706166925892722012-07-05T22:24:11.831-07:002012-07-05T22:24:11.831-07:00This is not true i belive in education he killed h...This is not true i belive in education he killed him self for some other reason not because he couldnt find a job why didnt he go somewhere else and looked for a job if you really want something youll get it this is a stupid not real story......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-84619539216336631992011-10-27T08:11:41.021-07:002011-10-27T08:11:41.021-07:00No. I really don't care what anyone's posi...No. I really don't care what anyone's positions are on the various issues and pseudo-issues raised by this blog. None of them matter. Using someone's suicide--a suicide you admit to knowing pretty much nothing about--to build interest in your position, to evoke an emotional response that advances your argument, to color yourself as a more caring and empathetic person, or to in any other way advance the essentially political and self-promotional purposes of this blog is callous, demented, and offensive. The hell with being a law professor, you should be ashamed of yourself as a human being.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-73821857300596557162011-10-20T14:32:52.071-07:002011-10-20T14:32:52.071-07:0010:26,
I never read the comments on blogs, or this...10:26,<br />I never read the comments on blogs, or this awful blog where this prof does whatever it takes to be a hero without doing anything (including working harder at teaching). Anyway, hopefully you have enough self-awareness to know that the clerks you work with, as well as the judge you work for, and for that matter any good person you know, would find your post laughably self-promoting. Anyway if I'm your fellow clerk, please don't tell me you wrote that because we will not have a good working relationship. That said, I'm guessing you wouldn't notice since you seem so oblivious to sounding like a douche.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-41897492022575724862011-09-20T21:45:06.169-07:002011-09-20T21:45:06.169-07:0010:26 is right. I only wish I had thought to take ...10:26 is right. I only wish I had thought to take a COA clerkship out of law school and save some of the $160k that all of those big firms were offering me...<br /><br />10:26, I hope you lose your job and everything that you have.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-26746632627603986012011-09-15T13:17:43.229-07:002011-09-15T13:17:43.229-07:00Law prof admits that the cause of "Alex"...Law prof admits that the cause of "Alex"'s suicide has many factors but I can tell you that I could have been "Alex." I got good grades 1L year; I was in my school's immigration clinic; I interned at a local nonprofit and was a RA for the immigration law prof. And I couldn't get a job. I had to move in with my parents and did doc review for years. I eventually bought health insurance privately for the sole reason of getting some mental health help. For the first time in my life I realized I needed some counseling and medication otherwise I might have headed down the same road as Alex and did think about for a miserable summer. And just like Alex there are many reasons why I was in such despair however, the feeling of worthlessness combined with crushing debt didn't help the situation any and is probably what began the descent into such an unhappy place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-87821155638468852972011-09-15T07:41:29.720-07:002011-09-15T07:41:29.720-07:00@9:27,
Your story hurt me inside just reading it....@9:27,<br /><br />Your story hurt me inside just reading it. It hurt me because I feel scammed and my situation is not nearly as bad as yours; but more importantly, it hurt me because the injustice of it is so profound. So fucking profound. <br /><br />You and I get capitalism. We have to apologize for wanting a better life. What’s that, you want to work as a lawyer at an institution helping people? You arrogant sob. What’s that you want to make money, money commensurate with 8 years of education and the time and cost associated with it? You greedy sob, and by the way, who told you anything is guaranteed. When they ask the question (“can we get away with it?”), as to us, no one is there to stop them.<br /><br /> But the losers that dropped out of high school, and now work in unionized labor and goverment jobs, cop, firemen, court officers, they get socialism. They get socialism and they like it that everyone else is taking it in the ass. They like it, and they tell us things like “life’s not fair, suck it up.” (Check out the youtube officer, if it still exists, of the court officer saying: “those lawyers though they were too good for my job, bet they wish they could get it now, but they can’t”). <br /><br />Deep down inside they know why they chose their jobs: school was too boring and hard, too expensive, it didn’t offer and immediate satisfaction of desires, and so, they went elsewhere. Yet, society cannot tell them: “we can get it cheaper, so you are taking a pay cut, (or not getting a job, etc.)”, like they do us, “you are not getting a six figure pension that cripples the tax payer,” like they do us, “you can’t have job security that translates to incompetence,” like they do us. When they complain, society can’t tell them “if you don’t like it, do something else,” or “you should have known,” or “nothing is guaranteed,” and no one dares tell them “you could have had better grades, and that is why you are fucked.” No they are protected, and they laugh at you and me. They laugh at us, as they should because they are right. Life worked out for them, and it didn’t for us. They partied when they were young, we suffered. They got to satisfy their desires immediately, we had to postpone our desires, but they are still better off. They get bankruptcy and no debt, we get slavery. They get Obama and Hoffa, we get the guy or gal that posted the anonymous comment at 5:59. They get rewarded for mediocrity, we punished for trying to do something better. They get to say things like: “we risk our lives,” or “our work is dangerous/hard,” when, if you look at the stats, they live longer, have a less chance of dying early or getting sick than the rest of the population, and we get 80 hour work weeks with no bennies and shit pay if we are lucky. <br /><br />Yet, that guy who keeps posting here and calling lawyers pussies is right. Nothing is going to change because all of us are scared. We are scared of the guy or gal at 5:59 P.M.. We are scared that he or she will find the defect, i.e. lack of grades, lack of journal, lack of work experience, lack of a good school, etc., and that he or she will say “that’s why you shouldn’t have job.” We are scared because after we are made public, we will never be employed again and we will have those GED superstars that enjoyed their youth, that have their six figure jobs, security, and pensions kick us down even more by not even giving us an unbiased shot at their jobs AND who will tell us we wereAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-26444545890244383752011-09-14T23:36:30.104-07:002011-09-14T23:36:30.104-07:00"Did they do well in LAW SCHOOL? "
I wo..."Did they do well in LAW SCHOOL? "<br /><br />I wouldn't have even mentioned these people if they hadn't all done well.Gilman Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06607416440240634159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-77792523340097454332011-09-14T21:27:48.509-07:002011-09-14T21:27:48.509-07:00No matter how much the word gets out, apparently, ...No matter how much the word gets out, apparently, it's still not enough. I have to think that, or else I don't understand the comments that deride the professor for 'assuming' that the horrible job market, the massive debt, the hopelessness of not being able to succeed in his profession and the destruction of his dreams didn't contribute to Alex's death. <br /><br />For those that think the professor is presumptuous for suggesting that such factors contributed to his death, you must lead a comfortable, little life, safely insulated from the recession and failure. You obviously do not know what it's like to have invested 10 years of your life to a goal that you now find out you will never reach. <br /><br />You obviously don't know what it's like to have spent $150,000 to reach that goal, knowing now that you will never reach it. Note that that's not the costs of starting up your own business - it's the cost of starting up FIVE businesses - and failing, with nothing, not even experience to show for it.<br /><br />You obviously don't know what it's like to painstakingly learn and stay up night after night, learning how, under enormous pressure to read, write, think, and conduct trials like a lawyer, when all that ended up being a waste of time, because you can never be one. Remembering the times when you were tired, wanted to quit - to give in, and you didn't, but that you still ended up losing anyway. <br /><br />You must not know what it's like to have gone to great lengths to make something better of yourself ($150,000!) only to now realize that your day is comprised of "would you like to try that on in the dressing room?" You must not know what it's like to have a 22 year old manage you and look down on you - a 22 year old who never got an education - because she thinks you must be really stupid to have to work a $7.50 an hour retail job at your age. <br /><br />And dammit, you did everything - everything you could - on a national team, on the Dean's List, an Honor's Scholar, graduated cum laude, sacrificed every last penny ($150,000!), spent months, hours every day to study for the bar (You gave EVERYTHING to take that bar - it took you half a year to come up with the money!), you worked while studying - to avoid that Wall-Mart but it was all in vain, because you will be working there the rest of your life. And asking yourself every night, "Why did I do it?" And having society look down upon you: those in the legal profession because you couldn't get in, and those not in the profession because they think education is a waste of time (and they are right.)<br /><br />I envy those people who cannot see or even wonder whether those factors influenced Alex's life and death. I envy you, because you do not have to live with what so many of us have to face every day. <br /><br />I, too, like Alex wanted to work in public interest. And I too, like Alex, wasted my whole life trying to do so. And now, I have to look forward to Wall-Mart every day ("Would you like to try that on in the dressing room, ma'am?")and cater to my customers, most who didn't get an education but who are much better off economically than I am and will ever be. Customers who look down on me and think I'm stupid for not getting an education or think I'm stupid for getting one, or just plain think I'm stupid for working as a sales girl at Wall-Mart. <br /><br />In another life, I was something else. Every day, I try to remember what it was like when people actually asked my opinion - asked me to think. Now, they don't want me to think. My days are comprised of "would you like to try that on in a dressing room, Ma'am?" said with a phony smile while I cry on the inside at the lost opportunity.) And why all this? Because I got a legal education - the worst mistake of my life. And worst of all, knowing that my dream - to be a public interest attorney - the reason I did it all, sacrificed - is dead. Maybe it never existed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-76396217480428888142011-09-14T18:43:37.142-07:002011-09-14T18:43:37.142-07:005:59- It's a pathetic indictment of the system...5:59- It's a pathetic indictment of the system that a student who by all rights was a very bright person, pursued a position in a field that is robust in his local market (not something like "constitutional" or "international" law), cared enough to devote his three years of study to honing his skills in that field (instead of just taking Corporations and Fed Courts and all the other bullshit Socratic Method courses), and graduated from the top school in a large state could not find a decently paying job in his chosen field. And the simple fact is that there is nothing the current law school model could have done to prepare him for that because the current law school model is controlled by people who abhor private practice. They could not teach Alex the two things that are at the heart of private practice, a) how to do mundane legal work, b) how to get and keep clients. It is even sadder that students who probably didn't have any clue what they wanted to do with their law degree or said some ridiculous thing like "constitutional," "international," or "corporate" law graduated law school with good jobs because they did well on six exams their first year of law school. That is a system that fails students, taxpayers, and the country, and threatens the long-term health and reputation of the legal profession, which is what the ABA and the current legal elite should be concerned about instead of quick profits and US News rankings. But Alex didn't know this before he went to law school and probably couldn't have found out using any reasonable methods. <br /><br />Do I really need to rehash the arguments about why "they never promised him a great job!" is a tired argument?<br /><br />Alex would have been better off simply paying a well-regarded immigration firm in Colorado $25,000/year to work for them for three years. That way he could have gotten a sense of the market, the law as it is practiced, and the client base and maybe had a job waiting after graduation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-34058050920170507122011-09-14T17:59:33.256-07:002011-09-14T17:59:33.256-07:00"Now, here's some of the people who did n..."Now, here's some of the people who did not succeed in making a career requiring legal qualifications after graduation:<br /><br />4) A graduate of a top university, with masters, and with a retired father in a related industry.<br /><br />5) A similar graduate, with a father working at high-level for a prominent international IP organisation.<br /><br />6) A smart, multi-lingual girl who had previous experience of working in a legal environment.<br /><br />4)-6) were also pleasant and intelligent, they just never had the kind of luck 1)-3) did."<br /><br />Did they do well in LAW SCHOOL? The school where they teach you law? I don't care about your subjective assessments of their intellect, their fathers, their undergraduate degrees, or their linguistic skills. We're talking about law jobs here. <br /><br />To 6:18, you're right; I was being careless. Clinics are besides the point. It is possible that Alex was outside the top fifth of the 47th best ranked 1L class in the country. Even though he subsequently got "good grades." If so, I think a couple things. Alex went to law school, it seems, to do immigration law, with his eyes open to the fact that it was a competitive field. No law school prints in its brochure, "hey, everyone can get an immigration law job!" So he wasn't scammed as far as immigration goes. As far as biglaw, it may or may not have been accessible to him, but that's on him for not making it into the top fifth of a very mediocre school. Does Colorado pretend that everyone there gets biglaw? No; its own employment stats, on its admissions page, say that only half the class gets a firm job and of that half, the average salary is just $100,000. So where's the scam there? I think tier 3s and tier 4s are in a pretty unconscionable racket, outside of, say, North Dakota, which works out fine for North Dakotans, but at a place like Colorado, there's a real fighting chance that you'll do well, a chance that one takes when one goes there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-7903691907730531992011-09-14T06:29:34.428-07:002011-09-14T06:29:34.428-07:00I too struggled with thoughts of suicide relating ...I too struggled with thoughts of suicide relating to debt after I graduated. There is a feeling of hopelessness that permeates once you "did everything right" and managed to wind up with no job, no prospects and a debt load equivalent to a subprime mortgage (but no house and no way of discharging it). <br /><br />After my clerkship ended and nothing turned up, I actually sat on the couch for a good three months and literally did nothing but fantasize about ways my life could end (and applied to jobs online). Eventually, I realized that no amount of money would ever justify taking my own life. I have no co-signers on my debt. I have nothing to lose by "losing" in the law. I'm now doing doc review and comedy writing on the side and I'm moderately happy with it. <br /><br /><br />Oh and I may have silently promised myself that I would only go out if I could take my law school with me. I'm also fueled by murderous rage, so I've got that going for me too!Dumpyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10390850586160299759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-47529777836677430052011-09-14T06:24:44.287-07:002011-09-14T06:24:44.287-07:00@6.10AM - Symptoms, not the disease itself. The pr...@6.10AM - Symptoms, not the disease itself. The problem is that the people who make it possible for people to pay high fees to study law (i.e., the lenders) have no reason not to loan money, however high the fees, however worthless the qualification that eventually results from the education. <br /><br />Basically, remove government assistance to law school students, and the whole house of cards collapses - no more ever-increasing-fees, no more totally unjustifiable spending, no more students borrowing money without having a reasonable shot at getting the employment necessary to repay that money. This will happen because the lenders will then have to consider whether they will get their money back.<br /><br />Sure, rail at law schools and law professors all you like - most of the criticism that is directed at them is fair. But even if they all turned into Albert Schweizer tomorrow, the problem would still be there - the people lending the money that keeps the scam going have no interest in not doing so.Gilman Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06607416440240634159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-26300574934871432192011-09-14T06:19:27.284-07:002011-09-14T06:19:27.284-07:00I think some law professor or dean has just read t...I think some law professor or dean has just read this article:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_PartyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-38124048084049737152011-09-14T06:18:18.788-07:002011-09-14T06:18:18.788-07:001:01: As you should know, being a law student, cli...1:01: As you should know, being a law student, clinics are offered in the second or third-year. With very rare exceptions (usually for people who already work at large firms looking to switch firms), the only thing that matters for big firm hiring is 1L grades. It's quite probable that "Alex" didn't exceptionally well in the required 1L curriculum (as you would need exceptional grades to get a 160K job out of Colorado), but *gasp* believed that his desire to practice a certain kind of law would help him get better grades in 2L/3L classes on that specific practice area, and that this would lead to a promising career in that area of law. And it's possible Alex's overall good grades were attributable to his improved performance as a 2L/3L when he stopped taking those pointless 1L classes, not that the 2L/3L classes I took were much better in terms of teaching me the law. <br /><br />And as a law student, you would know that big firms care very little about clinics because the clients, matters, and work are completely different from what junior associates do. Maybe if Colorado offered "due diligence/doc review for giant corporations" clinic firms would be more likely to hire their graduates. <br /><br />And as a law student, you would know that big firm hiring is determined almost entirely by what rank of school you went to and what grades you got, and no matter how good an interviewer Alex was, someone outside the top 20% at a school ranked in the 40s, who came straight from undergrad is not getting a job paying 160K a year.<br /><br />And you would know all this because you are a law student and not an out-of-touch law professor or a paid shill for law school administrations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-26668824373338610012011-09-14T06:11:46.194-07:002011-09-14T06:11:46.194-07:00I'm fine with anonymous comments. If you remov...I'm fine with anonymous comments. If you remove the option to comment anonymously, fewer people will comment, and those that want to troll this site will still do so.Gilman Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06607416440240634159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-39670691498236446652011-09-14T06:10:34.259-07:002011-09-14T06:10:34.259-07:00This is a tragic story no matter what the reasons ...This is a tragic story no matter what the reasons for Alex's choice to end his life. It's such a personal choice, and often one that seems inexplicable to others, that to try to fully understand it may be impossible.<br /><br />But because this post puts it the context of a larger question of how things might change, let me offer another target, one that I don't think is highlighted as often as others: the U.S. News and World Report rankings. Law schools, applicants, and alumni have all become beholden to this one list, compiled by a single magazine with the primary goal of increasing its readership. And the factors the rankings take into account create incentives that arguably run in the opposite direction of the interests of many commenting here. They encourage schools to provide scholarships to students with high entering GPAs and LSAT scores, many of whom (not all, of course) then go on to well-paying law firm jobs. They encourage schools to spend money on facilities, libraries, and other expenditures. They encourage schools to expand faculties to maintain good faculty-student ratios. They encourage continued publicity of faculty members' scholarly efforts to boost reputation rankings.<br /><br />And any school that decides to thumb its nose at the rankings will be rewarded with an immediate drop in applications/enrollment and calls for the dean's head from current students and alumni donors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-23522511220815041562011-09-14T06:05:48.835-07:002011-09-14T06:05:48.835-07:00Why not remove the option to post anonymously? Why...<i>Why not remove the option to post anonymously? Why not make it so that only those with a Google account can post? Of course, this cannot eliminate the problem 100% but it will impose another roadblock for those who post comments that are hurtful, trolling, or otherwise not helpful to the discussion.</i><br /><br />FWIW, I think this would be a positive move.PartnerXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-35794531672989916252011-09-14T04:22:18.862-07:002011-09-14T04:22:18.862-07:001:02am: There are only two types of people in the ...<i>1:02am: There are only two types of people in the current system, predators and prey.</i><br /><br />We talk an awful lot about law school "winners" and "losers" along an axis that only seems to care about USNWR rankings and how you did during OCI, but for my money, the only real "winners" in law school are those who are able to step out of 1:02's predator-prey dichotomy by intentionally going to a lower ranked school to scoop up a full or near-full ride.BreezyWheezehttp://www.fark.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-39110211758622282402011-09-14T04:02:36.124-07:002011-09-14T04:02:36.124-07:00Ooops, three, not four.Ooops, three, not four.Gilman Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06607416440240634159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-12583466789622367252011-09-14T04:00:08.108-07:002011-09-14T04:00:08.108-07:00@10.26 - That comment is garbage. I cannot think w...@10.26 - That comment is garbage. I cannot think what could possibly be going through your mind to try and write something like that unless it is a parody of the the kind of faux self-help advice out-of-touch professors give to struggling graduates. <br /><br />Yeah, Alex's life would have been much better if he had been on $160,000 P/A. In other news, scientists discover that ducks communicate via quacking, the Pope is Catholic, and bears prefer where possible to excrete in woodland surroundings. Meantime, getting such a job is highly predicated on luck and opportunity even for the highly able - something that academia in general fails to realise, even though it is also the rule in academic life.<br /><br />Here's a breakdown of how four of people I knew through my legal studies, all talented, well-connected, and pleasant, got where they are now:<br /><br />1) A very attractive young lady who became friends with a (much older, richer, and married) senior player at a major firm, invites to dinner etc., and the next thing you know they have a spot open which only she could fill.<br /><br />2) A nice guy, smart, looked around for years, but then gave in and was hired to work at his father's firm.<br /><br />3) Decent guy, older than the rest, worked a government job somewhere out of the way for a few years and then got hired from there for his connections, something he had not foreseen when he started work for the government out of sheer desperation at not finding anything elsewhere.<br /><br />Note: all of these people are hard-working, dedicated, intelligent - but the main thing was they had good luck, either through birth or otherwise. I don't at all begrudge them their positions, but I would never say to anyone "just work hard and you can get where they are", because that would simply not be true.<br /><br />Now, here's some of the people who did not succeed in making a career requiring legal qualifications after graduation:<br /><br />4) A graduate of a top university, with masters, and with a retired father in a related industry.<br /><br />5) A similar graduate, with a father working at high-level for a prominent international IP organisation.<br /><br />6) A smart, multi-lingual girl who had previous experience of working in a legal environment.<br /><br />4)-6) were also pleasant and intelligent, they just never had the kind of luck 1)-3) did. When all's said and done, that's what it comes down to - I include myself in this, since one of the reasons I was hired for my current position in IP because I speak Chinese, a language I picked up long before I knew anything about IP.Gilman Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06607416440240634159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-49381128307925797892011-09-14T02:05:42.653-07:002011-09-14T02:05:42.653-07:00Ultimately we don't know what caused Alex to w...Ultimately we don't know what caused Alex to want to end his life. The only thing that we do know with a reasonable degree of certainty is that his situation post law school certainly couldn't have HELPED and POSSIBLY contributed to his state of mind. I know this because there are many Alexes who are very despondent about their situation even though they haven't gone as far as Alex did.Nowhere Mannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-4485196982392063042011-09-14T01:02:19.909-07:002011-09-14T01:02:19.909-07:00I support this blog. I think it takes real braver...I support this blog. I think it takes real bravery for one of the professors to criticize the current system. Mr. Campos is talking about all the things that we have known were true for years, but no one was talking about it. It would have been easy to not say anything, so I applaud him. <br /><br />It is terrible that the ABA is so useless, legal education is nothing more the an expensive educational toll booth that does not do much to prepare someone to practice law. It is depressing. I was majorly depressed in law school. I just struggled to endure the three years of sheer boredom. I was lost and without a job at graduation. <br /><br />The whole experience messed with my mind, and self-confidence. It is only now, after I have had some distance from the experience, that I can appreciate how messed up it was. I went to a top 15 school, for what it is worth. Neither law schools or the ABA are looking after the best interests of graduates. There are only two types of people in the current system, predators and prey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-79518450575062379052011-09-14T01:01:10.141-07:002011-09-14T01:01:10.141-07:00Screenwriters don't do paragraph breaks; there...Screenwriters don't do paragraph breaks; there are breaks between what characters say. Of course I don't plan to have my characters talk in long condescending monologues like me.<br /><br />And yes, 11:19, if Alex had good grades and taken all the right clinics, he could have gotten a biglaw job. He also sounds like he'd be an excellent interviewer. I don't mean to suggest that any Colorado student can; indeed, the rest of my comment suggested the opposite. I just think that Alex could have.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-71892234820922817142011-09-14T00:44:43.854-07:002011-09-14T00:44:43.854-07:00Remember where you asked a question a few days ago...Remember where you asked a question a few days ago, LawProf?<br /><br />"To any law professor who happens to be reading this, let me pose a question: Have you done anything at all to signal to your school's administration, or even to your colleagues, that you find this situation unacceptable?"<br /><br />I guess the answer was, "No, unless showing up to try to paint those kids as racists counts."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04034378179943090607noreply@blogger.com