I’ve been mulling over an excellent letter posted to TemporaryAttorney.com, a sort of bile-filled blog like this one populated by temporary attorneys who fuss over the quality of their jobs. They like to post the harsh stories of work in the document sweatshops and then grouse but most of them have few other choices. And so they continue being stuck as temporary attorneys.
This letter writer finally had enough. After 7 years of legal work that bore little resemblance to the promises made by the producers of “LA Law”, “Ally McBeal” and “The Practice”, the letter writer blasts the Dean of the New York Law School for churning out too many attorneys. The debt is $140k and the attorney can’t make a dent in the debt.
Some people would probably classify the letter as “angry” because, well, it is angry. Angry nastygrams are usually tossed aside by the folks in power because it’s the simplest thing to do.
What is the letter writer supposed to do according to the rules of polite society? Why give clear and useful solutions in a polite tone. But what if there are no solutions at all? That is a possibility. We can’t stop the next generation from investing in legal careers without denying them. But we can’t guarantee that there will be work afterwards. In fact, the biggest problem is that we have way too many educated people and not enough work for them to do.
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