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"Down in the Data Mines"

When I was 10 or 11, I saw my dad?s tax return.  He made $10,000 that year.  There were six of us, but it was better than being on welfare - which we had been on for the three years beforehand.  When I was a kid, I used to dig through dumpsters for aluminum cans.  They were going for 50 cents a pound, or almost a penny a can.Having seen real poverty, it?s hard to feel sympathy for people making $40 an hour doing boring work.  Yet the ABA Journal feels the pain of document review lawyers:The following is one New York City lawyer?s account of working in document review. His name and identifying details are being withheld because, though it?s a job he hates, it?s a job he needs. Usually when I get to work in the morning in Midtown Manhattan, I am the only one in the lobby waiting for the elevator to go down...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on December 10, 2008 (boomark / email).