During the boom years, were people aware of the boom? Forum

[JCDante]

I've read some older topics in the archives, and plenty of them still have the same "T14 or bust, better be median and hopefully above" mentality.

In fact, I think the first definition of law school on Urban Dictionary represents today's (and apparently, yesterday's) zeitgeist best.

Law School

1) A place where stoners and alcoholics can get a graduate degree.

2) An institution where starry eyed idealists have their dreams of upholding justice and benefiting humanity heartlessly destroyed while incurring more debt than a third world country. These poor souls, after three years of brutal Socratic torture and exposure to the cruel reality of the broken justice system and the non-existent job market, come out of law school stoners or alcoholics.
Everyone ends up graduating from law school a stoner or an alcoholic.

by Dirty Rotten Scoundrel January 19, 2007

If he considered 2007 bad, I couldn't imagine what he would think of now.

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For starters, brutal Socratic torture isn't a thing anymore, if it ever was.

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This almost makes me want to defend law school

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[pancakes3]

Bro could also be talking about the non-existent law market for unicorn jobs like constitutional civil rights lawyer or international war crime prosecutor.

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Alcoholics makes sense, but are there really that many stoners in law school? I call bullshit.

I know of a lot of stoners at my school, actually

[Tiago Splitter]

Biglaw hires as many people today as they have at any time other than the classes of 2007/2008. I don't think people really noticed the 07-08 uptick until it had already passed. And even in at the absolute peak in 2008, when firms of 100+ hired more than 8,400 people, that still represented less than 20% of grads.