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- No....Anyway, answers to 9:45's questions are<br /> - No.<br /> - Used to be 35 back when I was in, with waivers granted up to age 39 for particularly desired specialties. Back then, two common waiver grantees were MDs and JDs. I'm betting today it's just MDs.<br /> - Used to be a total of 8 years back when I was in. This could be 8 years full time, combinations of full time and reserve, or a full time stint (3, 4 years, etc) with the remainder on inactive status. You could be recalled to full duty upon need at any time during the full 8 years, but not thereafter (your full duty having been discharged). Maybe differs today, but I doubt it, except for temporary stop-loss provisions for those currently on active status that could extend them past 8 years. (Obviously, if the answer to your first question was not no, then the answer here would be "10 years minimum else PSLF would not apply").<br /> - Your nurse friend was dumb for getting out. 12 more years and she could have retired as a Colonel on a 50% pension at age 51, then jumped into civil service (at, e.g., a VA or military hospital) and double dipped.It is okay to say that you don't knownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-29253861633187619972012-10-29T12:51:16.013-07:002012-10-29T12:51:16.013-07:00If it makes you feel better you can substitute &qu...If it makes you feel better you can substitute "lazy" for "dumb" above. <br />10:10Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-2683318833991083302012-10-29T11:59:03.851-07:002012-10-29T11:59:03.851-07:00@10:10AM
Yeah, it takes a real smart person to ca...@10:10AM<br /><br />Yeah, it takes a real smart person to catch a bullet in an Iraq war in search of WMD's that ended up being a big find for WD-40.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-55097880856344894852012-10-29T10:56:20.380-07:002012-10-29T10:56:20.380-07:00First, thanks for the insights and discussion.
Se...First, thanks for the insights and discussion.<br /><br />Second, not only do you have to look forward to losing all child tax and other credits, having your deductions limited via formula, etc. <br /><br />AMT is also waiting for you. (Which by the way makes all deductions, personal exemptions, and credits moot in any event.)<br /><br />AMT wouldn't be so painful if the IRS didn't make one first calculate the "regular way" (and think they might be entitled to a small refund), only to find (after completing the AMT calc) that they actually owe a few thousand. Fun, eh?(To the LSAT instructor)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-77386499453504735092012-10-29T10:10:54.284-07:002012-10-29T10:10:54.284-07:00If you're too dumb to use google you're pr...If you're too dumb to use google you're probably too dumb to be in the military.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-81333855625163104142012-10-29T10:05:50.191-07:002012-10-29T10:05:50.191-07:009:21 AM--the main problem with that plan is that t...9:21 AM--the main problem with that plan is that there are very few public sevice jobs available, esp. for recent grads with little or no experience. Most state and local governments are broke, and have cut back their numbers of such positions severely, or left them unfilled. If a position is open, there will be lawyers with 10+ years of experience applying for them.<br /><br />As others have noted, public service jobs used to be the "consolation prize" for those who could not get higher-paying jobs with firms. Now they are considered very desirable, since they offer relative job security, opportunity for ten year IBR, and often decent benefits (some even offer pensions--remember those?)BamBamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-71111846804515969162012-10-29T09:55:28.361-07:002012-10-29T09:55:28.361-07:00This is *key*. With medicine, society has decided...This is *key*. With medicine, society has decided that we all pay a little bit each month, and we barely notice it. It's as if we feel like we're spending the insurance company's money when we see a doctor, which is not the case. But it feels that way, so we are never shy of going to doctors and letting them rack up huge bills that we rarely have to pay. A nice setup!<br /><br />For law, there is no third party insurance. If you use legal services, you pay directly. So we see a direct hit to our wallets each time we see an attorney, and se shy away from seeing them as a result.<br /><br />I bet that if we had to pay for medical care out of pocket, we'd rarely see doctors and they would be as hated as lawyers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-75777041114179720982012-10-29T09:45:45.783-07:002012-10-29T09:45:45.783-07:00I will admit I'm picking the brains of the law...I will admit I'm picking the brains of the lawyers around here for free advice.<br /><br />Would signing up for military service do the same as PSLF in that all debt is forgiven?<br /><br />And what is the cut off age for military service?<br /><br />And how long does one have to serve? And can one be called back to active duty after the initial term? <br /><br />I know someone that served for 8 years and started at age 31 as a nurse. The recruiters she was talking to used to call her five times a day before she finally signed up.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-8849150103329228082012-10-29T09:37:21.909-07:002012-10-29T09:37:21.909-07:00Yes, FMV = Fair Market Value. Yes, FMV = Fair Market Value. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-47578786208890472842012-10-29T09:35:49.094-07:002012-10-29T09:35:49.094-07:00Also, teaching the LSAT is a great side job for pe...Also, teaching the LSAT is a great side job for people with a salaried position and relatively predictable hours. I am able to teach weekends and nights, and this work generates enough supplemental income to pay for a nice car, without having to dip into my regular income, which goes to house/food/clothes/etc.<br /><br />The main challenge is with work-related travel, but, since I can usually schedule the teaching load around my travel, it hasn't been a deal-breaker. The only other issue is that the income puts me into an AGI where certain tax credits start to phase out, so the effective marginal rate on the LSAT work is pretty brutal (45% of your earnings being taken by the government is kind of depressing). This is probably the one thing that will eventually make me quit, unless my circumstances change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-64465093194097776452012-10-29T09:34:54.350-07:002012-10-29T09:34:54.350-07:00FMV is Fair Market Value?
Sorry, I was an English...FMV is Fair Market Value?<br /><br />Sorry, I was an English major that got a JD. The kiss of death :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-43774468185269188322012-10-29T09:24:40.563-07:002012-10-29T09:24:40.563-07:00I teach the LSAT, scored in the high-170s, and nev...I teach the LSAT, scored in the high-170s, and never went to law school. I would venture that I'm not the norm, but also that I'm far from being alone. One would hope that at least a fair number of people with exceptional scores on a test that claims to measure analytical and logical reasoning skills would be able to figure out that law school is, under the current circumstances, a bad choice. Also, people with these scores probably (not always) have other options...I know I did.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-67425095373202468292012-10-29T09:23:35.319-07:002012-10-29T09:23:35.319-07:00No taxes on PSLF, of course, there is no tax on IB...No taxes on PSLF, of course, there is no tax on IBR/ICR forgiveness to the extent that one is "insolvent" (debts immediately prior to discharge/forgiveness exceed FMV of assets).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-15657527647479329292012-10-29T09:21:36.647-07:002012-10-29T09:21:36.647-07:00Is Public Service Loan Forgiveness the best thing ...Is Public Service Loan Forgiveness the best thing going since canned beer? Because if it is, I would guess that law grads with 6 figure SL debt would be getting public service jobs and signing up for it in hoardes.<br /><br />Someone posted on TTR that JD Painterguy could have been on a PSLF program since its inception in 2007 and would have been could have been should have been 5 years away from being SL debt free.<br /><br />Question 2: Is there a tax bill on the discharged loan amount after Public Service Loan Forgiveness? <br /><br />As Drac said to his Halloween pal in his Hungarian accent whilst using cockney slang: "Frrankly Frank, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program is something to sink your teeth into, and is the greatest bleedin' thing to come down the pike since sliced bread, and is bloody great!<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-11836325968360880522012-10-29T08:39:29.149-07:002012-10-29T08:39:29.149-07:00My apologies, then. I thought you had two fish on...My apologies, then. I thought you had two fish on the line. :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-63804360792615933882012-10-28T23:12:11.067-07:002012-10-28T23:12:11.067-07:00"Jeeze Louise you two, look up:
http://www.me..."Jeeze Louise you two, look up:<br />http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/troll"<br /><br />Just FYI -- it was an honest question, I just found this blog recently so am just now catching up on all the lingo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-72638713426488809472012-10-28T22:00:01.963-07:002012-10-28T22:00:01.963-07:00DJM,
I just have to commend you for how you prese...DJM,<br /><br />I just have to commend you for how you presented that - your slides really hit home and make the situation clear. It would be hard to not understand clearly what is going on after seeing those slides.<br /><br />Even as a long-time reader of this blog, I don't think things quite hit home until looking at those slides. Startling.<br /><br />Thank-you for all the hard work you and Law Prof do on the subject. Excellent work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-48873420996366965642012-10-28T21:27:44.687-07:002012-10-28T21:27:44.687-07:00Really great post on the state of legal education:...Really great post on the state of legal education:<br /><br />"Legal education is the 20th century steel industry – massively successful up until the very end, and then, in a moment, it wasn’t. Not successful, and not much of an industry. American steel producers (including producers in Pittsburgh) have rebounded, and they still make lots of great steel – but the big integrated producers don’t make the huge quantities of the structural steel that made them rich and powerful, and in all that they produce today, they employ only a tiny fraction of the US workforce that they once did. In Pittsburgh, where I live and which has become something of a poster-child for the chic revival of post-industrial America, the scars of the dislocation, disruption, and loss wrought by the crash of steel are still visible, and full of meaning and economic impact, 30 years on. <br /> <br />The collapse of American steel may or may not have been avoidable, at least at the very end. But everyone at the top of the pyramid, on both management and labor sides, saw the end coming: the over-capacity, the flawed economic model, the changing demand. They saw it decades ahead of time. Everyone diagnosed the problems as the responsibility of other players. In macro and micro ways there were plenty of opportunities for management and labor collectively to take a balanced view of their futures and to avoid walking over the precipice together. Yet walk over the precipice together is what, in the end, happened. The parallel to legal education is imprecise. At the very least, this is not law schools’ 1981, the year that Steel's struggles really started to hit home in earnest. <br /><br />Is it?"<br /><br />http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2012/10/legal-education-and-the-end-of-the-beginning.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com