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nickb285 wrote:I liked the part where he bolded that there was " more than one lawyer job for every law graduate in Colorado" before non-boldly admitting that about 1,000 people passed the Colorado bar. This of course means that 55% of all people licensed to practice law in Colorado will be able to do so, and those from DU will be competing with CU-Boulder grads, T14 grads, and a handful of other out-of-state grads, but that's okay, because they have a "strategic plan designed to produce practice-ready lawyers" and also "The world is becoming ever more complex," so don't even worry about it man.

While some critics scoff at jobs that do not require bar passage, many law school graduates seek and enjoy such jobs. Even during the boom years, when law graduates had fewer constraints, roughly 16% selected jobs for which bar passage was not required.

And 2011 Denver Law grads had an average salary of $70,922. Using a similar adjustment to the one used by NALP to account for reporting bias at the high end of the salary scale, 2011 Denver Law grads had an average adjusted salary of $66,713.[26] All of these figures are substantially higher than the $56,887 salary required to justify an investment in law school.

Lord Randolph McDuff wrote:Hahaha. HE CITES COOLEY! LOOK AT CITE #3!

Cicero76 wrote:In before Paul Campos tears this DUI Dean's "message" about myths a brand new orifice. Don't let me down, ITLSS.

Crowing wrote:At some point the doubling down on stupid has to stop, voluntarily or not.

prezidentv8 wrote:

Lord Randolph McDuff wrote:Hahaha. HE CITES COOLEY! LOOK AT CITE #3!

Cicero76 wrote:

prezidentv8 wrote:

Lord Randolph McDuff wrote:Hahaha. HE CITES COOLEY! LOOK AT CITE #3!

This is so horrifically funny that I don't even know how to react. And frustratingly, I can't explain how lulzy it is to my non-TLS friends.

rad lulz wrote:This guy is a shyster. What a shitbag.

cahwc12 wrote:Pretty disgusted by this article cited for #4:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/shawnoconno ... e-money/2/

"Law School costs $150k + $135k in lost wages." This assumes:

1) no interest on the debt
2) having a job or being able to get a job that makes that much and maintain it over three years.

"But a lawyer makes $4 million over his career, trumping the cost of an education." This assumes:

1) Going to law school nets you a job as a lawyer.
2) I guess we can agree to disagree, but I don't see how 10% of your lifetime career earnings is a small number. And with the average age of law school students being about 26, that means these lawyers will work until 70? Who plans to work until 70?

I'm tempted to write a letter to this guy or forbes magazine, but I doubt anything would come of it. Who reads angry letters to the editor?

cahwc12 wrote: 2) I guess we can agree to disagree, but I don't see how 10% of your lifetime career earnings is a small number. And with the average age of law school students being about 26, that means these lawyers will work until 70? Who plans to work until 70?