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Such conversations are long overdue. <br /><br />Merely, it needs to happen outside of Campos' blog, preferably outside of flash point referentiality to him altogether, and ideally outside the blogosphere in a forum that might really make a difference for students--say, at a mandatory faculty retreat for your institution, featuring some honest discussions with struggling alums. Or, even better, at a joint faculty/admin/career services retreat, where everyone can look the horse in the mouth together.<br /><br />-Z32Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-78191023584762412542012-01-27T09:17:20.786-08:002012-01-27T09:17:20.786-08:00Well, PH, this is essentially a blog for graduates...Well, PH, this is essentially a blog for graduates who feel they were ill-served by the legal profession. What current students feel is not as germane in this setting. I know many recent graduates who are doing well,and are satisfied with their choices, though no one's life is perfect. Their views are also not germane in this context. It is very hard for any special interest blog to avoid becoming a one-note affair. It is most interesting here when someone deviates from the theme, though that person usually gets swallowed up quickly, and the normal line continues.<br />What you are asking of Law Prof would seem to be impossible,given the parameters set. I am surprised that there have not been more voices from Colorado in general.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-1460674385548950542012-01-26T21:11:30.025-08:002012-01-26T21:11:30.025-08:00I admire you, Mr. Horwitz, for having the guts to ...I admire you, Mr. Horwitz, for having the guts to come to this blog, explain your position and post under your name. I may disagree with your position regarding Campos dissecting the tensions he may be experiencing, but I respect you nevertheless for making it.<br /><br />As for the attitudes of students versus grads towards the whole economical situation, I think I would like to add to 7:00am's assessment: while still a student, I remember reading an editorial in my school's newspaper from a recent grad who complained bitterly about the situation. I was not too sympathetic, as I felt he placed too much blame on the school. <br /><br />I still don't blame my school personally, but my sentiments about the overall situation have changed greatly. The difference? As a student I was living on student loans and my greatest worry was passing my Civ Pro exam. Because I didn't have to worry about the economical consequences of the crisis yet, I did not think too much about them - they had not yet become a part of my life, nor were they affecting my present or my future.<br /><br />Now, as a graduate, the impact of the crisis is inescapable: I live it every day, whether it is every two weeks, when I see my $500 paycheck or every few days, when I get letters from bill collectors for my student loans and know that I have no chance of paying them.<br /><br />It's present at my job, where the practicing attorneys are held in high esteem and I know that despite my hard work, I will never be one of them. It's present in the question "what happened?" when co-workers who know I passed the bar wonder why I am at a job making $1000 a month and I can't explain it to them.<br /><br />It's present at my home, where I have to live with family because despite my age, I cannot be self-sustaining, although I am working a 60 hour work week and live very frugally. And it's everywhere in my thoughts: the disappointment at not reaching my career dreams, despite sacrificing everything to do so; the staying up late at night, wondering how I will ever be able to pay off my student debt, which I am on the hook for despite not getting anything useful from my degree (and by useful, I mean learning skills that result in my being paid more than minimum wage.)<br /><br />No, I guess that's the difference: as a student, you don't yet feel the consequences. As a grad, you can't escape them. The dire financial straits we all find ourselves in affects every aspect of our lives. It doesn't disappear. In fact, it won't be until their first student loan payment is due and those students realize with horror that their $1000 a month salary (or no salary at all if they are working for free) will not allow them to pay back their loans or support themselves that the full impact of the situation will then become clear.<br /><br />Mavlov said it best: one cannot concentrate on anything else until his or her basic needs have been met. While still in school, current students will have their basic needs met, due to living off student loans. Grads do not have this luxury. No suprise there that the attitudes of the two groups would be drastically different.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-63247829156804066862012-01-26T18:25:30.043-08:002012-01-26T18:25:30.043-08:00Anonymous @4:56,
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If one comes from a background of relatively little practice, what should one do to bring skills training and practical knowledge into one's own classroom? If one's status as a tenured professor in this system creates tensions and contradictions, what's the best way to deal with or minimize them, other than a pat acknowledgment that they exist? (I will say in fairness that Prof. Campos delved a little more deeply into the latter question in his early posts; that effort seems to have disappeared since then.) I think those questions are valid regardless of whether and how many of the problems are also structural in nature; assuming that neither Prof. Campos nor I nor most law teachers are likely to resign in protest or out of shame, we still have duties to carry out, and it can be useful to discuss how best to respond to the legal economy, the legal profession, and legal education within that individual context. <br /><br />The point of my inquiry is not that those questions will be embarrassing if Prof. Campos answers them, or that it might diminish some of the occasional hero-worship on the comments here; I don't care about that one way or the other, and I assume Prof. Campos doesn't either. It's that those are, in my view, valid and important questions, and that it would be useful to see *some* discussion of them. I don't think it should be the exclusive subject of this blog; as I have already said, at least some of Prof. Campos's journalism here is useful. 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She gave them a piece of her mind and then complained to the OCS at UCONN which then predictably did nothing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-6164634357863221912012-01-26T06:00:49.398-08:002012-01-26T06:00:49.398-08:00I'm happy to answer some of those questions, h...I'm happy to answer some of those questions, however imperfectly; I can't promise I'll stick around for all of the discussion, but they're perfectly reasonable questions. I doubt they'll be detailed enough to satisfy everyone, and indeed they may not be enough to satisfy me either. With apologies for the length, I'll put this over two comments.<br /><br />Yes, I do some things, both on my blog and at my own institution, to discuss with both students and the administration specific and structural problems with legal education. As I've written on my blog, it was the centerpiece this year of my Legal Profession class; upon experience with last year's class, it was clear to me that it's impossible to fairly ask students to think about questions of legal ethics which presuppose that they're going to be lawyers unless we address their own worries and sometimes despair about ever finding a job, and the effects that desperately needing for financial reasons to keep a job might have on the subsequent decisions they make. Moreover, for whatever reason, the class is called "Legal Profession," so I consider myself bound to discuss serious problems in the profession, as well as in legal education. For that matter, one of the readings I assigned was this very blog; whatever problems I may have with it, I'm still happy to let my students know it exists. I also have helped bring students' specific complaints and reform proposals to the administration and pledged to continue doing so long after the class has ended. Whether this is enough is another question entirely, but the response from my students has been fairly positive; as many commenters do here, they want at the very least to know that their professors are listening to them and actively bringing their concerns to the administration. I must add that many of my students have a somewhat different response to some of these issues than many of the commenters here, and that I've heard similar things from some other legal ethics professors who have made serious efforts to bring these issues into the classroom. I'm not making a judgment about that; just pointing out that a full discussion of these issues should give a full airing to the wide variety of responses students have to these issues.<br /><br />2) Of course I do my best to help students with jobs, and that regardless of whether they're my best or worst students. Sometimes I've succeeded in doing so, sometimes I haven't, but they all know, because I tell all of them, that I'll do anything I can for them and just about anything they want me to do for them. I dare say this is more a personal response than a structural one, but I consider it my duty, and would regardless of the state of the economy. <br /><br />-- PHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com