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TOUGH TIMES AND TRANSMOGRIFIED TIPS

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

OUR NEWEST SUPREME COURT JUSTICE: JUDGE RICKY POLSTON OF THE FIRST DCALawyers delivering pizzas, tending bar, working as doormen or construction workers. Tough times are here for the legal profession. Coming out of law school tens of thousands of dollars in debt with the myth of 150K jobs disappearing and being replaced with $38,500.00 starting jobs with legal aid or part time contract work with firms, lawyers are doing what they have to do to pay their rent, their loans, and take care of their families. The title of the post links to the Law dot com article. With the end of many banks and wall street investment banks, must invariably come the end of lucrative legal accounts. Big firms will continue to downsize, and the end result is among other things, more unqualified lawyers will look with envy at that 150K job, with insurance and two sets of black robes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on October 01, 2008 (boomark / email).