tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post7386411063300408250..comments2023-10-30T08:41:06.178-07:00Comments on Inside the Law School Scam: The graduatesLawProfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05174586969709793419noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-8178755811207994162012-05-17T13:24:01.101-07:002012-05-17T13:24:01.101-07:00Are you being sarcastic 8:30?Are you being sarcastic 8:30?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-16696864394387344912012-05-17T08:30:23.218-07:002012-05-17T08:30:23.218-07:00@6:06 - because Skechers made a specific claim abo...@6:06 - because Skechers made a specific claim about expected outcomes, while sophisticated law schools couch their 'warranties' in language that, so far, is being construed as not guaranteeing anything. Also, the outcomes for the Skechers product are much easier to measure than the 'guarantees' law schools engage in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-48695404238178732322012-05-17T07:33:35.231-07:002012-05-17T07:33:35.231-07:00Those shoes sell for like $50.Those shoes sell for like $50.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-3490600857767265072012-05-17T07:18:06.572-07:002012-05-17T07:18:06.572-07:00Look, the members of the class might have gone int...Look, the members of the class might have gone into almost $200 of debt dischargeable in bankruptcy to get those sneakers. Show some humanity.Morse Code for Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533833808776688455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-27687909033269087142012-05-17T07:10:12.397-07:002012-05-17T07:10:12.397-07:00Don't sell the boomers sneakers that (if they ...Don't sell the boomers sneakers that (if they actually use them to exercise and eat right) might reduce their weight, because they'll expect the weight to melt off simply from wearing the sneaker and when it doesn't, you're in for $40 million of pain!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-80393711911814511062012-05-17T06:53:28.167-07:002012-05-17T06:53:28.167-07:00Clueless boomer tropes:
We have a knowledge econo...Clueless boomer tropes:<br /><br />We have a knowledge economy and we need workers who are smart and flexible; in order to get the job you have to have a specific degree (adv degree preferred) and a specific number of years of relevant experience.<br /><br />(Key: you can't be flexible and a specialist at the same time)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-33114933870777098462012-05-17T06:06:30.969-07:002012-05-17T06:06:30.969-07:00Skechers shoes has to pay $40 MILLION for a harmle...Skechers shoes has to pay $40 MILLION for a harmless deception, if we can call it a deception, and law schools get away with blatantly lying to destroy young people's lives. <br /><br />Can anyone explain this lack of proportion?<br /><br />http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/05/consumerrefund.shtmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-52261564804467801622012-05-17T05:39:54.041-07:002012-05-17T05:39:54.041-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bertrand Rivièrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03853736083909290311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-68034081428592562782012-05-17T05:37:51.671-07:002012-05-17T05:37:51.671-07:00lulz. Baby Boomer Parents: The Gift That Keeps on ...lulz. Baby Boomer Parents: The Gift That Keeps on Taking. <br /><br />Is there no end to the lengths these people will go to eat their young?Bertrand Rivièrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03853736083909290311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-57514111556710723042012-05-17T05:31:30.203-07:002012-05-17T05:31:30.203-07:00@ May 16, 5:25PM wrote:
"Don't assume be...@ May 16, 5:25PM wrote:<br /><br />"Don't assume because you are serving lattes at Starbucks that you will never have your own very profitable handful of coffee restaurants."<br /><br />That is, if the student loan debt doesn't get in the way or out of control to where it ruins the credit score.<br /><br />The Debt can do that by creating a condition where there are "excessive obligations in relation to income"<br /><br />Which is a banking term and stated ground for rejecting an application for a car loan, credit card loan, store credit, small business loan etc.<br /><br />But if none of that happens, then yes, the person working at Starbucks could potentially end up with a chain of coffee shops.<br /><br />And as far as the baby boomers go, I LOVE poking fun at the hypocrisy of that generation and the counterculture, which they thought was going to save the world and instead ran Higher Education into the ground with a cool trillion dollars of debt.<br /><br />Moreover, the Humanities are devalued, and generally viewed as a waste of time as so many commenters on this and many other blogs have expressed.<br /><br />The only problem with that is it creates a society with only the commercial and pop culture to inform it. <br /><br />As Philosophy Professor Allan Bloom said: 'Certain questions need to be answered by Hegel, and not Joyce Brothers"<br /><br />And not John Lennon. <br /><br />(This is so much fun!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-21184019247542870242012-05-17T02:56:33.999-07:002012-05-17T02:56:33.999-07:00@ 2:47am
LOL@ 2:47am<br /><br />LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-14929369636499668442012-05-17T02:47:10.662-07:002012-05-17T02:47:10.662-07:00To the moron who keeps writing about how people wh...To the moron who keeps writing about how people who do not go to law school risk having to blow herpetic peni for crack money, YOU CAN'T GET ORAL HERPES FROM CONTACT WITH GENITAL HERPES, DUMBASS. That's why one is called Herpes 1 and the other is Herpes 2. Genital herpes can transfer to the genitals with contact. Oral herpes can transfer to the mouth from contact. But gentital herpes doesn't transfer to the mouth. People are so stupid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-28505765272986565152012-05-17T02:45:21.316-07:002012-05-17T02:45:21.316-07:00Law firms are VERY VIGILANT for nepotism. It's...Law firms are VERY VIGILANT for nepotism. It's not a joke or a something to take lightly. Due to the lack of jobs everyone is trying to shove their piece of shit relative into an associate position, but if you allow it you hurt the firm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-29696297374113399592012-05-16T21:27:19.600-07:002012-05-16T21:27:19.600-07:00Last week, a junior partner at the firm told me th...Last week, a junior partner at the firm told me that his brother had made a plea for him to hire his son (partner's nephew) as an associate since he was graduating next week. His reply: "I can't even hire my own son, what makes you think I can hire Mikey?"<br /><br />This profession is getting so bad that even nepotism isn't a sure thing anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-20286453162542172202012-05-16T17:54:47.543-07:002012-05-16T17:54:47.543-07:00Real Estate is NOT the way to get rich. The profi...Real Estate is NOT the way to get rich. The profits from the late 90's and early 00's were a phenomenon of an artificial, FRAUDULENT, bubble, rather than true economic growth. I guess you can make money off of renting but I doubt you'd get filthy rich.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-57901113297953564632012-05-16T17:25:46.030-07:002012-05-16T17:25:46.030-07:00There are those of us baby boomers who went to top...There are those of us baby boomers who went to top schools and whose kids SAW how risky and difficult being a lawyer really is. I did not have to tell my kids not to go to law school. They knew not to go to law school after growing up with me never home for dinner, working around the clock, working many weekends, in unstable jobs most of whidh lasted only a few years for me and for my peers, never really knowing what is going to happen next in terms of job security. Many of my top top law school classmates are underemployed or unemployed and have been for a long time. No, my kids did not like instability and poor prospects, and would not even consider law school. I did not have to tell them and would not let them go to law school, even if it was free. Simply too risky a proposition today.<br /><br />That being said, if you do not go to professional school, it may take a while -like 20 or 25 years - to make a decent amount of money. Doing any type of fairly menial job can get you experience where you may actually learn a skill that puts you into your own business. That is the best way to go. You may be a handyman, for example, and use your meager earnings to buy up depressed real estate. You keep adding to it, and by the time you are 55, you are rich. But from ages 22 to 42 you were a handyman with one or two pieces of real estate worth nothing and you were slaving away. That is the way it worked in my parents generation, and many of them came out a lot better, at least financially, than today's educated boomer class.<br /><br />Don't assume because you are serving lattes at Starbucks that you will never have your own very profitable handful of coffee restaurants.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-61357006247088653042012-05-16T17:25:36.803-07:002012-05-16T17:25:36.803-07:00I saw this a lot when I told my friends I was goin...I saw this a lot when I told my friends I was going to drop out of law school. Many echoed sentiments that they wish they could do the same thing but their parents wouldn't let them (even though they weren't financially dependent on their parents). There is massive societal/familial pressure not to drop out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-53209865423059363612012-05-16T16:28:56.734-07:002012-05-16T16:28:56.734-07:00Sure, it is loose, that's why I said that Pete...Sure, it is loose, that's why I said that Pete and Janis could be considered boomers. But the baby boom is generally considered a post-war thing, so it isn't a stretch to say that Hendrix and Lennon aren't boomers. <br /><br />Anyway, you won't get any argument from me that the counterculture was a moneymaking thing. Whether or not it started out as one or became one is a different question. <br /><br />But none of that is really within in the scope of this blog, so I'll see you at lawprof's next post.Shark Sandwichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08866373313029422313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-3484091798125615052012-05-16T15:45:50.061-07:002012-05-16T15:45:50.061-07:00Shark Manwich:
"Baby Boomer" is a loose...Shark Manwich:<br /><br />"Baby Boomer" is a loose cultural term, and not so much hard dates of birth. Check out Wikipedia.<br /><br />But the boomer heroes were without question the beatles, and hendrix, and Joplin, and The Who and etc.<br /><br />But in reality the whole counterculture was driven by big business, perhaps best represented by Mick Jagger of whom the late Philosphy Professor Allan Bloom described as, and in so many words: A teenage satyr, and shrewd middle class boy with one eye winking at his corporate backers ant the other at his audience that he whipped into a frenzy.<br /><br />And that was what the counterculture was all about. Making money and turning any little thing into mass distribution and commodity business.<br /><br />Case in point: Mick Jagger and Madonna sing at the superbowl as thousands that are drowning in student loan debt watch.<br /><br />It all sounds like madness maybe, but if you think about it, I will let you fill in the gaps, which is what creative writers do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-28089908977994083052012-05-16T15:25:49.027-07:002012-05-16T15:25:49.027-07:00"Again, what's better - being angry and c..."Again, what's better - being angry and commenting on blogs all day, or sucking herpetic penis to satisfy your crack cocaine addiction while not having a home?<br /><br />Life could be worse."<br /><br />You are stupid and clearly have learned nothing from the discussion here. Like a wise person once said, "You never need to hang a bell around a fool's neck."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-19737208202738378602012-05-16T15:23:51.021-07:002012-05-16T15:23:51.021-07:00Neither Lennon nor Hendrix were boomers. Joplin an...Neither Lennon nor Hendrix were boomers. Joplin and Townshend probably aren't either, but that depends on when you start counting. <br /><br />Anyway, it's not that uncommon for a generation's early heroes and leaders to be outside of that age group.Shark Sandwichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08866373313029422313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-25723396016090487612012-05-16T15:19:13.914-07:002012-05-16T15:19:13.914-07:00"Nothing about getting a JD prevents someone ..."Nothing about getting a JD prevents someone from having a messed up life. In fact the huge debt burden coupled with lack of being able to get a job that can service that debt would tend to make someone more messed up than if that same person didn't go to law school in the first place."<br /><br />Again, what's better - being angry and commenting on blogs all day, or sucking herpetic penis to satisfy your crack cocaine addiction while not having a home?<br /><br />Life could be worse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-37340907814154429672012-05-16T15:16:26.331-07:002012-05-16T15:16:26.331-07:00The Baby Boomers gave us John Lennon, and Woodstoc...The Baby Boomers gave us John Lennon, and Woodstock, and the Hippies and the Counterculture.<br /><br />The Baby Boomers changed Humanity and worldwide Human Culture for the best, and made the world more humane and kind and sharing and giving.<br /><br />As pete Towensend said once about Janis Joplin and Hendrix:<br /><br />"They were your idols, but they were my Fucking friends!"<br /><br />And as John Lennon said: "All you need is (baby boomer) Love!<br /><br />Peace, and Love, and Usury.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-28665404444073611172012-05-16T15:02:40.549-07:002012-05-16T15:02:40.549-07:00@ 11:41am
Getting a law degree, especially from l...@ 11:41am<br /><br />Getting a law degree, especially from lowly regarded, open admission ones, does not preclude being in a "fucked up" scenario. I don't know why you or anyone would think that. Nothing about getting a JD prevents someone from having a messed up life. In fact the huge debt burden coupled with lack of being able to get a job that can service that debt would tend to make someone more messed up than if that same person didn't go to law school in the first place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-22495406746893502672012-05-16T14:59:50.615-07:002012-05-16T14:59:50.615-07:00We do? Did you ask all of us? I don't rememb...We do? Did you ask all of us? I don't remember getting a phone call or email. Did you send a smoke signal?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com