<p>The “junior partner”/associate discussion aside, I’m going to throw something out there: if you spend two years sitting on your a–, you’re not going to get a job, and it’s not a law school scam thing. </p>
<p>Did the guy bother taking the GA bar? (He’s living in GA, likely with a NY bar license.) Is his NY license even current - that state has some of the most brutal MCLE requirements around. Is he volunteering? (There’s no shortage of people who need free legal help.) Does he get involved in the community? Join various Boards of Directors? Network with people he knows?</p>
<p>Let’s face it - no matter how insanely qualified you are, no employer wants to hire someone who has done nothing for two years. They all understand underemployment, or volunteering, or things like that, but they don’t get sitting around.</p>
<p>(As a final thought, the writer might want to know that Republicans don’t think that starving him will motivate him to find a job; we think that employers are a LOT less likely to hire on full-time employees when they could be on the hook for 99 weeks of unemployment payments. I cannot count the number of employers I’ve talked to since the recession who have bluntly stated that they do not hire on full-time because of the unemployment and ObamaCare costs. Perhaps if the letter-writer understood these things, he might be able to have a real discussion with people who are doing the hiring.)</p>