For newly minted lawyers, nabbing that first job has grown extraordinarily difficult since law firms slashed ranks during the recession. The legal community’s question du jour is: Does that give jobless lawyers the right to sue their law school for their inability to secure high-paying legal work?
New York-based lawyer David Anziska thinks it does.
Anziska has already sued 15 law schools. In the coming months he plans to sue an additional 20 law schools by end of May, two of which are in Massachusetts — New England Law Boston and Western New England University School of Law. But Anziska — who has said in the press that 2012 will be the “year of law school litigation” — suffered a setback last week when New York Judge Melvin Schweitzer threw out the complaint he filed with the Supreme Court of New York against New York Law School, brought by nine graduates of the school.
Overall, the legal sector lost 45,000 jobs during the “Great Recession,” according to the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) in Washington, D.C. Law school graduates from the class of 2010 faced the worst job market since the mid-1990s, with an employment rate of 87.6, a drop from 91.9 in 2007, which had been a 20-year high, per NALP.
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wHO in the hell does he think he is. Suck it up and quit complaining.Is his profession any better than the average citizen?I think not.
ReplyDeleteMaybe these out of work lawyers could go try an honest profession.
ReplyDeleteSounds like economic "natural selection" is trying to eliminate lawyers, the scourge of society since the time of Aristotle. They are the only ones one can give 35 different definitions of the word "must". The first Amendment SPECIFICALLY says, very clearly, that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof....". What have lawyers done with THAT? They have made HUNDREDS of laws, thats what... "Attorney" is about as respectable a profession as Pawn Shop Owner or Banker. What lawyers have done to Amendments 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10, is also disgustingly deplorable. "First, kill all the lawyers" was relevant 2000 years ago and still is....and was said by a much smarter man than most of us have ever met or seen....
ReplyDeleteWhat's the difference between a carp and a lawyer?
ReplyDeleteOne's a scum-sucking bottom dweller and the other is a fish...