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KibblesAndVick wrote:A) "Greenway, who works for the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy, graduated in 2005 from Syracuse University College of Law in New York with a $130,000 student loan.

International human rights law was Greenways first path of choice for his profession, but a law professor turned him on to public defending."

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B) "With a salary lingering right around $30,000 per year, a mortgage, three children and a $130,000 student law school loan to pay, Greenway picked up the second job in October 2006.

His student loan payment is $477 each month for the next 20 years."

Obviously law school can be a horrible horrible financial decision.

Kohinoor wrote:

KibblesAndVick wrote:A) "Greenway, who works for the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy, graduated in 2005 from Syracuse University College of Law in New York with a $130,000 student loan.

International human rights law was Greenways first path of choice for his profession, but a law professor turned him on to public defending."

leads to...

B) "With a salary lingering right around $30,000 per year, a mortgage, three children and a $130,000 student law school loan to pay, Greenway picked up the second job in October 2006.

His student loan payment is $477 each month for the next 20 years."

Obviously law school can be a horrible horrible financial decision.

Was law school even the horrible financial decision? I assume that someone with the grades to be a public defender could have at least gotten something in document review or at a smaller personal injury firm and be making 40-50k.

Greenway, who works for the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy, graduated in 2005 from Syracuse University College of Law in New York with a $130,000 student loan

jack duluoz wrote:“Being a lawyer doesn’t give me any kind of excuse not to work hard,” he said. “It doesn’t make me above anybody else just because I’m a lawyer. I could have decided not to be a public defender, not to come to Kentucky and stayed in New York or New Jersey or Pennsylvania and done private practice and done fine. But this is what I really love doing. As long as I still love it, I hope to keep doing it.”

Kohinoor wrote:"a mortgage, three children"

I think we're done here.

debbiestevens wrote:

Kohinoor wrote:

KibblesAndVick wrote:A) "Greenway, who works for the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy, graduated in 2005 from Syracuse University College of Law in New York with a $130,000 student loan.

International human rights law was Greenways first path of choice for his profession, but a law professor turned him on to public defending."

leads to...

B) "With a salary lingering right around $30,000 per year, a mortgage, three children and a $130,000 student law school loan to pay, Greenway picked up the second job in October 2006.

His student loan payment is $477 each month for the next 20 years."

Obviously law school can be a horrible horrible financial decision.

Was law school even the horrible financial decision? I assume that someone with the grades to be a public defender could have at least gotten something in document review or at a smaller personal injury firm and be making 40-50k.

Public defenders have grade cutoffs? I just assumed that was the job you got stuck with if you finished at the bottom of the class.

Syracuse University College of Law in New York with a $130,000 student loan.

International human rights law was Greenways first path of choice for his profession

mistergoft wrote:

Kohinoor wrote:"a mortgage, three children"

I think we're done here.

I stopped reading at "he went to Syracuse and is working in Kentucky"

KibblesAndVick wrote:

mistergoft wrote:

Kohinoor wrote:"a mortgage, three children"

I think we're done here.

I stopped reading at "he went to Syracuse and is working in Kentucky"

He also went to Syracuse with the intention of working in international human rights law... I'm worried about the "reality" of law school and I've spent hours and hours looking into employment statistics, researching fields of law that interest me, talking to practicing attorneys about their jobs and current law students about their lives, etc. I'm not sure I can imagine how it must feel to think you're going to be able to practice International Human Rights Law only to discover you're six figures in debt and attend Syracuse Law...

KibblesAndVick wrote: B) "With a salary lingering right around $30,000 per year, a mortgage, three children and a $130,000 student law school loan to pay, Greenway picked up the second job in October 2006.

Aeroplane wrote:

KibblesAndVick wrote: B) "With a salary lingering right around $30,000 per year, a mortgage, three children and a $130,000 student law school loan to pay, Greenway picked up the second job in October 2006.

According to a 2006 Louisville Courier Journal article, the starting salary (in 2006) for a PD was $37,522 to start. And this guy was making only "around $30,000" after a year? Am I missing something here?

http://www.nlada.org/DMS/Documents/1161700462.76/1008

chicoalto0649 wrote:

jack duluoz wrote:“Being a lawyer doesn’t give me any kind of excuse not to work hard,” he said. “It doesn’t make me above anybody else just because I’m a lawyer. I could have decided not to be a public defender, not to come to Kentucky and stayed in New York or New Jersey or Pennsylvania and done private practice and done fine. But this is what I really love doing. As long as I still love it, I hope to keep doing it.”

thuggishruggishbone wrote:

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International human rights law was Greenways first path of choice for his profession

debbiestevens wrote:Public defenders have grade cutoffs? I just assumed that was the job you got stuck with if you finished at the bottom of the class.