<p>The harsh reality: listen to LazyKid. The lawyers-working-for-free is true all across the country, at least from CT to CO, because I know that the USA offices in both of those states are “hiring” attorneys to work for free-and really free-no benefits, no nothing, with the warning that if an AUSA job becomes open, you don’t go to the head of the line.
To Newton13, since nobody thinks it will happen to them, people who want to go to law school ignore these warnings. Not only are there too many law schools, but tons of people are still applying, taking on huge debt, and then wondering what to do upon graduation. Until applicants wise-up-and they haven’t yet, just look at the stats for applicants-a lot of folks are going to owe a lot of money and not be able to get a job.
How bad is it-well, look at any major city’s (blank, b/c it’s copyrighted)list.org, and go to law jobs. See those $20-40/hour jobs advertised? For licensed attorneys only? Well, those jobs get filled-and have more then enough applicants.</p>