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Re: The Jobs Crisis at Our Best Law Schools

Post by bk1 » Sun Apr 14, 2013 3:50 pm

More than 1/5?! This is BRAND NEW INFORMATION.

Wait... no it isn't.

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Post by Docreviewsux » Sun Apr 14, 2013 3:53 pm

bk187 wrote:More than 1/5?! This is BRAND NEW INFORMATION.

Wait... no it isn't.
Are you going to combine this with other threads to make incoherent babble for 0Ls?

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Post by PRgradBYU » Sun Apr 14, 2013 4:05 pm

Docreviewsux wrote:
bk187 wrote:More than 1/5?! This is BRAND NEW INFORMATION.

Wait... no it isn't.
Are you going to combine this with other threads to make incoherent babble for 0Ls?
You really need to get a life, Docreviewsux. Do you genuinely have nothing better to do?

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Post by rad lulz » Sun Apr 14, 2013 4:08 pm

This info may not be new, but at least it is in a respected, mainstream publication and not buried in some asspie excel spreadsheet on a message board

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Post by RodneyRuxin » Sun Apr 14, 2013 4:13 pm

rad lulz wrote:This info may not be new, but at least it is in a respected, mainstream publication and not buried in some asspie excel spreadsheet on a message board
lolol

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Yea, this is one of the least useless/offensive of OPs posts

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Post by Hrun » Sun Apr 14, 2013 6:49 pm

Wonder how UCLA feels that they used a pic of their law school for the article.

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Post by moonman157 » Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:07 pm

This article reads like it was written by a TLSer, in a good way

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Post by Blessedassurance » Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:11 pm

moonman157 wrote:This article reads like it was written by a TLSer, in a good way
a seasoned, non-naive tlser would have recognized uva's bullshit numbers. even law school transparency doesn't provide an accurate picture, just better than the alternatives. any system that emerges to make the information better, schools try to game it.

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Post by Samara » Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:15 pm

Blessedassurance wrote:
moonman157 wrote:This article reads like it was written by a TLSer, in a good way
a seasoned, non-naive tlser would have recognized uva's bullshit numbers. even law school transparency doesn't provide an accurate picture, just better than the alternatives. any system that emerges to make the information better, schools try to game it.
The article accurately pointed out UVa's school-funded positions. You can't just discount them.

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Post by PM2353 » Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:17 pm

According to the article and graphs, #76 LSU is better to attend then Duke or Berkeley. Sounds right

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Post by moonman157 » Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:45 pm

Blessedassurance wrote:
moonman157 wrote:This article reads like it was written by a TLSer, in a good way
a seasoned, non-naive tlser would have recognized uva's bullshit numbers. even law school transparency doesn't provide an accurate picture, just better than the alternatives. any system that emerges to make the information better, schools try to game it.
There was recently a discussion about UVA's school-funded fellowship that painted them in a much better light than the general assumption that they were $10/hr positions working at the reference desk of the library. The article acknowledges that they are better alternative to outright unemployment, but is clear to point out that they're likely the reason that UVA has the lowest underemployment rate out of any law school. Sounds pretty much like what's been written on TLS.

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Post by Blessedassurance » Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:55 pm

moonman157 wrote:
Blessedassurance wrote:
moonman157 wrote:This article reads like it was written by a TLSer, in a good way
a seasoned, non-naive tlser would have recognized uva's bullshit numbers. even law school transparency doesn't provide an accurate picture, just better than the alternatives. any system that emerges to make the information better, schools try to game it.
There was recently a discussion about UVA's school-funded fellowship that painted them in a much better light than the general assumption that they were $10/hr positions working at the reference desk of the library. The article acknowledges that they are better alternative to outright unemployment, but is clear to point out that they're likely the reason that UVA has the lowest underemployment rate out of any law school. Sounds pretty much like what's been written on TLS.
Those positions should be classified, at the very least, as underemployment.

http://abovethelaw.com/2011/08/uva-laws ... mpressive/

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Post by 09042014 » Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:57 pm

rad lulz wrote:This info may not be new, but at least it is in a respected, mainstream publication and not buried in some asspie excel spreadsheet on a message board
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Post by 09042014 » Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:59 pm

Blessedassurance wrote:
moonman157 wrote:
Blessedassurance wrote:
moonman157 wrote:This article reads like it was written by a TLSer, in a good way
a seasoned, non-naive tlser would have recognized uva's bullshit numbers. even law school transparency doesn't provide an accurate picture, just better than the alternatives. any system that emerges to make the information better, schools try to game it.
There was recently a discussion about UVA's school-funded fellowship that painted them in a much better light than the general assumption that they were $10/hr positions working at the reference desk of the library. The article acknowledges that they are better alternative to outright unemployment, but is clear to point out that they're likely the reason that UVA has the lowest underemployment rate out of any law school. Sounds pretty much like what's been written on TLS.
Those positions should be classified, at the very least, as underemployment.

http://abovethelaw.com/2011/08/uva-laws ... mpressive/
Exactly. Any school funded job should be considered underemployment.

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Post by untar614 » Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:15 pm

rad lulz wrote:
PM2353 wrote:According to the article and graphs, #76 LSU is better to attend then Duke or Berkeley. Sounds right
Maybe if you put down the USNWR real quick, you'd realize it may be a better choice if you just want to be a lawyer.
meh, it's a bit misleading. LSU may have 4% lower underemployment score, but Duke has an 11% higher employment score. So Duke gives you an 11% better chance of having a full-time, long-term legal job. Not to mention Duke placed 64% in biglaw or federal clerkships versus 7.2% at LSU.

Can someone explain this disparity in employment scores vs undermployment scores? Is it from solo practitioners, FT non-Bar passage required jobs and unemployed and not seeking being excluded from both categories? If so, unless one aspires to do solo practice or a non-bar passage requiring job (or is just going to law school to keep the parents happy and not get the trust fund cut off), then employment score still seems a far more useful metric than underemployment score (if we subtract school-funded jobs). And biglaw+AIII is still more useful for those wanting to make good money and/or pay off lots of school debt.

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Post by 09042014 » Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:42 pm

The feds won't give you 260k in loans for UG.

They'll give you like 25K tops.

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Post by sinfiery » Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:50 pm

Yeah, if you use the same skepticism TLS has towards employment statistics for top UGs, almost all of them are close to the worst investments in the world at sticker.

But they do seem to be kind with financial aid so it doesn't happen often that the cost is all in loans.

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Re: The Jobs Crisis at Our Best Law Schools

Post by Samara » Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:54 pm

Regulus wrote:
Jordan Weissman wrote:If we were talking about undergraduate students, these numbers wouldn't seem quite as awful. But JD's consistently dive six figures into debt and give up three years of other opportunities for an education that prepares them with a very specific, not-so-easily transferred skill set (please forget the old saw that "you can do anything with a law degree").
I wonder what makes Mr. Weissman think this...

I understand that students are usually able to work during the school year in undergrad whereas this isn't as feasible with law school, but law students can work summer positions and potentially earn quite a bit during their 2L if they get a summer associate position. Also, the starting salaries of a biglaw lawyer from a top law school and an undergrad from a top university are probably very different, especially if the undergrad majored in something retarded.
Not really. People at top schools can go into engineering, finance, consulting, etc. jobs that don't pay quite as much as the top tier of biglaw, but aren't too far off.

There are a ton of reasons why the employment data is a bigger deal for law schools than undergraduate schools, for the reasons pointed out in your quote and many more.

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