Scholarships for law school?

tomtownsend
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:00:46 +0000

That midsize firm in a second or third tier city is more and more a myth. The jobs requiring sophisticated legal work are increasingly in NY/CA/DC because of how this country’s economy is structured, with the super rich selling our middle class’ hard assets to foreign nationals and the rest of our “citizens” out to suffer in full on junk food/filthy YouTube videos/opiate addiction. To get those midsize firm jobs, you increasingly have to go to a T13. The days of going to UF for Tampa or Tulane for NOLA or OSU for Cleveland top firms are in the rear view mirror because they take 1-5 associates a year. Those firms often have equal or higher billables than V50 firms in Manhattan.

If anything, I think I have understated the bleak future of this “profession.” When you go on Wall Street Oasis, Top Law School Forum, the old JD Underground, and Outside the Law School Scam, you see what the profession has become both in big law and non big law. They will be far more vidid and descriptive than me, I don’t need to traumatize some 18 year old applying to college. My children are not quite ready to make a career choice. If they cannot hack it in other white collar roles, they will become plumbers or go to culinary school to franchise a McDonalds before ever stepping foot on a law school campus. At least they’ll “get theirs” in this scam economy without having to start an OnlyFans.

Your daughter should pursue art. You really can make a living, even if you may not have a mortgage and that security you can always be a public school art teacher. I also do not think undergrad law classes, mock trial, or case briefs give any preview of what being a lawyer is really like.