tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post7318782460410094359..comments2024-02-23T04:59:26.907-05:00Comments on But I Did Everything Right!: We Need More Christian Lawyers, Right?Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07820446523257638689noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-23288208887806314082010-08-23T20:03:51.399-04:002010-08-23T20:03:51.399-04:00@5:31 - try 12 years out, formerly with a large Ne...@5:31 - try 12 years out, formerly with a large New Orleans firm. Just telling you how it was - two of the firms where I clerked were solid on LSU undergrad/LSU law, and Tulane/Loyola clerks were not extended as many offers as LSU law students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-70562018642074285632010-08-21T16:04:06.972-04:002010-08-21T16:04:06.972-04:001:01: You have a strange conception of "fun&q...1:01: You have a strange conception of "fun".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-23703903383038550132010-08-21T15:58:56.684-04:002010-08-21T15:58:56.684-04:0010:47. What profession screens applicants out like...10:47. What profession screens applicants out like that? That's an easy one. <br /><br />the Clergy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-36056855894000844512010-08-18T18:54:15.870-04:002010-08-18T18:54:15.870-04:00The graduates will get jobs in the Justice Dept. o...The graduates will get jobs in the Justice Dept. of the next republican president. Ashcroft's DOJ hired almost exclusively from Regent, which is ranked in the FIFTH tier and is acclaimed by nobody except hardcore jeezus freaks. Remember that Monica Goodling or Gooding? She wrote those memos saying how it's OK to fire the non-complaint US Attorneys using logic like (paraphrasing) "because the president said so?" Regent, baby.EvrenSevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08131985789483273230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-556542134818630092010-08-17T13:01:49.664-04:002010-08-17T13:01:49.664-04:00Angel, therein lies a problem. Not THE problem, bu...Angel, therein lies a problem. Not THE problem, but a problem. Grades will get you an interview. I never said I was special, I said I have never been a bottom 30% guy. I promise not to bitch about not having a job, because I don't need one. I am going to Law school purely for fun. At the end of it, I might get a job. I don't care about that. I just want to go and have fun with it. I promise not to ever bitch about failing, as I won't. I promise to never complain about working, because I will if I want. Sometimes starting at the bottom is what you have to do. Seems like a lot of whining. Weak people, if you ask me. As the drill instructors used to like to say, "Shut your pie holes." Most folks that complain, new and old, have no idea how to do this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-38913861705173542772010-08-17T11:55:29.977-04:002010-08-17T11:55:29.977-04:00Yah. I thought that was cute too. We all graduate...Yah. I thought that was cute too. We all graduated from college summa cum laude. Who told you that you were special? Your mama?Angelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07820446523257638689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-9127615810027280932010-08-17T11:36:38.222-04:002010-08-17T11:36:38.222-04:00"If 30% of new lawyers are unemployed a year ..."If 30% of new lawyers are unemployed a year after graduation, then those are probably 30% that chose the wrong profession. I have never been in the bottom 30% in my life, and I'm not going to start now."<br /><br />You're adorable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-28338381600178877282010-08-17T10:47:14.607-04:002010-08-17T10:47:14.607-04:00The second law of thermodynamics still works. Ent...The second law of thermodynamics still works. Entropy as it applies to institutions. Nice. I honestly don't see the problem with more unemployed lawyers. So what? If 30% of new lawyers are unemployed a year after graduation, then those are probably 30% that chose the wrong profession. I have never been in the bottom 30% in my life, and I'm not going to start now. What University stops or even advises a kid not to go into a certain profession because they are not going to make it or are not suited for it? None? Go get a degree in Philosophy. How's that working for you? How about Criminal Justice, even though you are a 100lbs overweight? Or you have a degree in Business, but are a complete moron at the interview and the only hope you have of working in the field is if at some point during your day you say, "Would you like fries with that?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-6251891238938693402010-08-17T09:53:16.923-04:002010-08-17T09:53:16.923-04:00I say this as a (nominal) Christian myself, but I ...I say this as a (nominal) Christian myself, but I HATE all this "the world needs more Christian lawyers" claptrap. It sounds nice (defend the innocent! uphold the law!) but it quickly devolves into obsessions over trying to overturn Roe v. Wade and "protecting" First Amendment freedom of discrimination...whoops...expression for Christian groups. It's a self-serving assertion that does not really promote the aims of the statement (surprise surprise).<br /><br />I got into a lot of arguments with my fellow Christian lawyers/non-lawyers over this one. Case in point - if you have a major property dispute that could protentially cost you six or seven figures of loss to you if you lose, do you want a lawyer that will "turn the other cheek" or one that will get you the best result possible?<br /><br />Even my fellow Christians had to 'fess up on that one. Let's cut the hypocrisy, try to live the best moral lives that we possibly can, and admit that "peacemaking" does not always solve the problems of a fallen world. Christain lawyers are not inherently preferable to non-Christian lawyers, especially when you're slinging it out in the mud.dupednontraditionalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04170022654810216357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-83701876724538566752010-08-17T08:45:13.210-04:002010-08-17T08:45:13.210-04:00as long as the government student loan scam keeps ...as long as the government student loan scam keeps financing this foolishness, I can't blame anyone for establishing another diploma mill - Christian has become a word without meaning other than for marketing purposes - I think it still sells well down South. I think the next shoe to drop is the establishment of US Muslim law schools devoted to Sharia. It will be interesting to watch the ABA approve that, which they will.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-36777326771943437122010-08-17T05:31:28.350-04:002010-08-17T05:31:28.350-04:0011:06 sounds like a recent LSU Law grad. If feelin...11:06 sounds like a recent LSU Law grad. If feeling superior to Tulane grads, or any other Louisiana law grads makes you feel better about your prospects . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-21518870282826767832010-08-17T00:56:27.167-04:002010-08-17T00:56:27.167-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.ayla.birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10392979864074999529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-13115363836709925672010-08-16T23:06:23.569-04:002010-08-16T23:06:23.569-04:00Absurd. There's nothing going on in Shrevepor...Absurd. There's nothing going on in Shreveport, and in Louisiana, the law school hierarchy is LSU, Tulane (a far second), Loyola, and Southern University. Those four law schools turn out way too many lawyers as it is. Starting salaries are disgustingly low even at "big firms" in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Opportunities to go elsewhere are limited for kids who study only Civil Code courses. The last thing the state needs right now is another law school. *sigh*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-50346225344173532382010-08-16T22:36:08.949-04:002010-08-16T22:36:08.949-04:00Remember that part of the Bible where Jesus told h...Remember that part of the Bible where Jesus told his followers to go $150,000 into non-dischargeable educational debt? That part was a great part of the Bible. I don't remember the section exactly -- I believe it's verse 28 from the book of Lemmings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-69107187910303130102010-08-16T21:38:32.333-04:002010-08-16T21:38:32.333-04:00Is that a bayou accent, 9:29?Is that a bayou accent, 9:29?Angel the Lawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07902928273488771301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-86717857528713528892010-08-16T21:35:31.404-04:002010-08-16T21:35:31.404-04:00The ABA is really approving a new law school? In t...The ABA is really approving a new law school? In these crazy times? I know Louisiana might need some talent to help legally sort out all the mess of the recent, but a whole school? <br /><br />Mmmmm... I smell greed disguised as religion... (its that same aroma that wafts through the air when I pass by a church or any other house of worship)Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02226563898846242595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-33384470284475351512010-08-16T21:29:51.118-04:002010-08-16T21:29:51.118-04:00Will the school accept the unclean money of the gu...Will the school accept the unclean money of the guvmint in this pursuit in the form of tuition dollars, or will it ramain "pure"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com