tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post1032271531288862449..comments2024-03-18T11:05:17.083-06:00Comments on Outside the Law School Scam: Talk to your child about law professors. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-34683018833005661612015-04-30T10:37:02.621-06:002015-04-30T10:37:02.621-06:00I think NKU will be one of the first law schools t...I think NKU will be one of the first law schools to close.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-48750988889038156052015-04-29T17:45:26.043-06:002015-04-29T17:45:26.043-06:00And northern Kentucky is also home to the creation...And northern Kentucky is also home to the creation museum, where they teach Jesus riding dinosaurs, earth 6000 years old, etc. Sooooo ... It's pretty easy to guess the intelligence of the average local law student.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-27548047032812642622015-04-29T14:42:32.008-06:002015-04-29T14:42:32.008-06:00Simkivic says you have a million dollar degree Old...Simkivic says you have a million dollar degree Old Guy. All you need to do is start networking some more and the money will flow in like water through a sewer.<br />And there's just no such thing as age discrimination in legal employment. After all, people value the wisdom and experience that you would surely bring to an organization. <br /><br />Listen to anal bead porn watchers like the good Professor McElroy. She'll tell you to buck up. We can't expect EVERYTHING to be handed to us. Just get up some gumption and conquer the world!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-10335779479516553612015-04-29T14:35:16.401-06:002015-04-29T14:35:16.401-06:00Northern Kentucky is a law school for the best mou...Northern Kentucky is a law school for the best mouth breathers and knuckle draggers. I tried to dissuade a Lemming from attending there about 6 or 7 years ago. She was so proud of her 148 LSAT!<br />Alas, she ran joyfully off the career cliff and is now a low-paid contractor in working sales for a cable company.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-15621363343159640592015-04-28T12:13:19.861-06:002015-04-28T12:13:19.861-06:00If Northern Kentucky were included as an Ohio law ...If Northern Kentucky were included as an Ohio law school, then there would be ten, not nine as Simkovic stated. That young fellow, as handsome as he is, has proven himself incapable of basic arithmetic, and even a law professor should be able to count. This is a huge embarrassment to Simkovic, to Seton Hall law school, and to the babes nursing on Simkovic's pretense of statistical analysis. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-41854561647454023702015-04-28T01:59:43.762-06:002015-04-28T01:59:43.762-06:00@ 9:47
There's a very good case to be made t...@ 9:47 <br /><br />There's a very good case to be made that older generations benefited by happenstance from different economic conditions - THAT'S NOT THE POINT. <br /><br />What is happening is not happenstance but design. <br /><br />WE DEMAND LEGAL EQUALITY, TODAY. Give the younger generations that. That thing that no one can deny we've deprived up either by happenstance or by arrangement [yeah, it's the latter.] Bankruptcy, Truth in Lending Act, usury laws...<br /><br />You know what's fucking bullshit? The entire argument as to the existence of the corporate form boils down to: "gee, if we don't guarantee investors protection against loss of their personal assets - called 'limited liability', no one will invest." <br /><br />Here's the modern form: "GEE, if we don't guarantee students protection against loss of their personal assets for the rest of their natural lives, no students will go to school." <br /><br />Wake up call, assholes: it's not just law schools who saw their enrollment(s) peak and decline starting in 2010; the demo of all federal higher educational borrowers peaked in 2010 AND DECLINED. In 2010, 12 million Americans borrowed from the fed to go to school; in 2014 it's down to 9 million on a declining trajectory. <br /><br />Hmmm...not an accident. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-45656271048427531992015-04-27T22:47:46.934-06:002015-04-27T22:47:46.934-06:00Not to pile on our misguided Boomer frenemy, but:
...Not to pile on our misguided Boomer frenemy, but:<br /><br />-The long-term outsourcing of middle class jobs to overseas labor markets to ensure lower consumer prices - disproportionately benefiting people who consume more and harming the younger/poorer who rely on such jobs - was an intentional policy choice, sponsored, at least in part, by Boomer voting patterns, mid 70s - present.<br /><br />-The dramatic rise of the education sector relative to CPI, both in terms of costs borne by the young and in terms of instant benefits (income, prestige) to older generations is an inescapably Boomer social policy.<br /><br />-The majority of the key people involved in the decisions that crashed the financial sector in the late 2000s are Boomers who sought to continue squeezing every possible dollar from poor people by abandoning centuries-old principles of banking in a quest of greed, only to then turn around and claim that they couldn't be removed or else it would get worse. Golden parachutes for all!<br /><br />-Boomers grew up in a world where the average CEO-to-common worker pay rate was 20-to-1. When they leave, it will be around 2000 to 1 with golden parachutes for the worst offenders. They took a country that valued neighborly solidarity, thrift, and middle class labor and turned it into a nation that worships get-rich superheroes.<br /><br />-Boomers grew up in an age where government was modest and funded with high income tax rates. Under Boomer voting and leadership, we've gotten ramped up government spending and drastically slashed taxes, which is essentially choking state and local government (and, frankly, keeping the economy back). No one whines like a Boomer with a fair tax bill.<br /><br />Boomers' actions have not been passive natural acts of humanity. They have intentionally made policy choices that severely damaged this nation's future for their own generational benefit.<br /><br />The typical Boomer benefited from FDR's New Deal ideology by getting cheap, decent education. They entered a workforce that literally had no peer on the planet. With the first tastes of wealth and financial disruption, they immediately put Reagan in the White House and basically kick-started several decades of wealth-shifting and policy-bending to their whims. Literally every social system we have benefits Boomers. We slashed public education spending after they and theirs got done with school. Medicare? Oh, no, we can't touch that. On and on and on.<br /><br />Boomers: 40 years of giving yourself entitlements paid for by mortgaging the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-35942100898666082992015-04-27T22:30:31.494-06:002015-04-27T22:30:31.494-06:00Well, Northern Kentucky Skule of Law 'n' H...Well, Northern Kentucky Skule of Law 'n' Hog Calling is located in the Cincinnati metro area. Cincinnati's main airport is in Kentucky. So it's not unreasonable to lump Northern Kentucky in with Ohio's law schools.<br /><br />More reasonable, in my opinion, would be to move the border to the Mason–Dixon Line so that Ohio ended just south of Dayton. After all, even Muncie, Indiana, which is farther to the north, is known as Muntucky.<br />Old Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02399124824529778710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-80470079644141291282015-04-27T21:54:33.097-06:002015-04-27T21:54:33.097-06:00Old Guy, can you at least have enough character to...Old Guy, can you at least have enough character to admit that it was your own decision to attend an "elite" law school that caused your current problems? Hating an entire generation because of that is a seriously disordered reaction by someone who doesn't want to admit he made a mistake.<br /><br />Face it. You made a mistake. You did it because you didn't have adequate information. But that doesn't make 40 million people parasites. In fact, you're more likely than most boomers to collect more from Social Security than you paid in, simply because you're paying in so little. You might want to consider whether that makes you a parasite yourself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-58791070880196852952015-04-27T21:14:47.540-06:002015-04-27T21:14:47.540-06:00No, boomers have not been injured. Certainly not l...No, boomers have not been injured. Certainly not like the following generations. Young boomers had high-paying jobs and low tuition. Young Generation Xers had low-paying jobs—if any at all—and high tuition. For the millennials, it's much the same, the chief difference being that they at least get hired—by their boomer parents.<br /><br />The boomers have created society in their own image. They shall go down in history as the most selfish, most parasitic generation ever.<br />Old Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02399124824529778710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-31891692845373382692015-04-27T20:14:26.946-06:002015-04-27T20:14:26.946-06:00LOL, that bald dude thinks he's Mr. Silicon Va...LOL, that bald dude thinks he's Mr. Silicon Valley. So do a million other dudes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-17857806004431451922015-04-27T19:59:44.926-06:002015-04-27T19:59:44.926-06:00Speaking of predatory law professors, some of them...Speaking of predatory law professors, some of them will claim to understand statistical methods or economic analysis without any specialized training except a law degree. In particular, Michael Simkovic of Seton Hall law school has recently been forced to introduce fictitious numbers in a hasty and desperate effort to discredit Deborah Jones Merritt's insightful critique of his work. <br /><br />Consider the following sentence from Simkovic's April 27 post at Brian Leiter's Law School Reports: "A disproportionate share of the 8 or 9 law schools in Ohio (9 if you count Northern Kentucky) are low ranked or unranked, and this presumably is reflected in their employment outcomes." Of course, Simkovic can't tell us why anyone would count Northern Kentucky as an Ohio law school, since not surprisingly it's in Kentucky. But even more important, there are 9 Ohio law schools even without counting Northern Kentucky. In other words, Simkovic can't even count correctly, let alone presume, conclude, or reason correctly.<br /><br />Ohio State, Capital, Case Western, Cleveland-Marshall, Cincinnati, Dayton, Akron, Toledo, Ohio Northern...how many names are there, Simkovic? Nine. And since each name corresponds to a law school, how many law schools are there in Ohio, Simkovic? Nine.<br /><br />Ironically enough, undercounting law schools would tend to undercut Simkovic's argument that poor employment outcomes for Ohio law school graduates are not a significant problem because Ohio has so many law schools. But Simkovic is so invested in reactionary efforts to discredit others that he can't keep track of his own arguments any more.<br /><br />Such is the formerly plush and increasingly stressful life of a law professor...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-36152043547664840212015-04-27T18:29:08.818-06:002015-04-27T18:29:08.818-06:00@ 3:09 PM
I don't give two squirts of piss if...@ 3:09 PM<br /><br />I don't give two squirts of piss if it's a conspiracy or not. I want legal equality. I want actual, equal protection of the laws and not tyranny of the majority, which is what we've gotten. Laws that overwhelmingly impact only one age demographic, imposed upon them by another. <br /><br />It's just a point of fact that there's national price inflation in higher education and the demographic supposed to be going off to college has no political representation. Frankly, that really doesn't smell like an accident, either. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-65896198477856865232015-04-27T16:09:03.477-06:002015-04-27T16:09:03.477-06:00Do I think there are serious issues in the country...Do I think there are serious issues in the country? Absolutely. Do I think there was some orchestrated conspiracy to benefit the Boomers at the expense of the Millennials? That is ridiculous thinking. Millennials are simply the victims of a capitalistic system that is evidencing the greed and narcissism inherent in its capitalistic structure. Boomers too have been greatly injured by greed of those at the very top. When George Carlin said they were coming for "us", he meant all of us, not just the Millennials. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-77605469636455864242015-04-27T16:00:36.180-06:002015-04-27T16:00:36.180-06:00Poor at math, am I? How the hell would you know? I...Poor at math, am I? How the hell would you know? I was using the integral calculus at age 12. I can mentally extract square roots to six or seven significant digits without breaking a sweat. People thought that I'd major in math—and I started to, but I became bored with it. I used to be an engineer—until that too went south. <br />Old Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02399124824529778710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-10329575823064320902015-04-27T14:58:29.015-06:002015-04-27T14:58:29.015-06:00@ 12:16
Can you deny that the present 40 and unde...@ 12:16<br /><br />Can you deny that the present 40 and under crowd is not being treated equally under the law? Can you deny that older generations enjoyed better legal protection and more legal, economic equality than latter generations have? <br /><br />This inequality is simply what happens when you have a boom-er demographic that votes for its financial interests over and over for a couple of decades. <br /><br />Between the generations, there's tax code inequality, bankruptcy code inequality, labor law inequality (not covered by FLSA or age discrimination laws), interest rate inequality, price inequality, discrimination in the garnishment of social welfare, and those just entering college never gotten so much as to vote for the persons who passed the laws that govern their economic existence and opportunity. <br /><br />For each economic discrimination against the younger generations, there was a corresponding benefit to the older generations. <br /><br />Do you understand how ridiculous it is that we are denied bankruptcy protection, which would only apply to those who cannot pay out of the 1.3 trillion in federal student loan debt while last year alone, Social Security and Medicare cost 1.328 trillion? That's 37% of the federal budget that was spent on social welfare programs for old persons. And, no, you didn't pay for it all through taxation. <br /><br />So, we're forced to take a 15.3% FICA hit to our pay to subsidize redistribution to older generations who systematically changed the laws for higher education after they benefited from them. That is a forced contributed from the relatively poor to the relatively much, much more wealthy. <br /><br />As for demographics, Millennials are gaining on Boomers. We're a couple million fewer than you thanks to immigration, and your demographic will shrink from deaths. <br /><br />What do you think our attitude is going to be towards wealth redistribution when we're the voting majority and you're no longer the voting majority? How would you like to be a sitting duck, and have the SS and Medicare cut back? How would you like to have the rug pulled out from under you? <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-75915225854443518092015-04-27T13:37:40.933-06:002015-04-27T13:37:40.933-06:00"Again with the gross over-generalizations by..."Again with the gross over-generalizations by the angry and bitter millennials."<br /><br />This has to be a flame, right? 'Nam and Godwin's law in one bundle of rambling joy?<br /><br />Dybbuk, is that you?!Law School Truth Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13166092871374037640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-5232706777544310392015-04-27T13:16:02.315-06:002015-04-27T13:16:02.315-06:00How could you possibly know that 8:29. Again with...How could you possibly know that 8:29. Again with the gross over-generalizations by the angry and bitter millennials. Just think how good you guys have had it compared to the rest of us. No draft, technology making it far easier to access information and the world. Even the practice of law is far easier. My first job in Mid-law required lots of time in the library. It required reviewing the Digest, getting citations, pulling down book upon book from the stacks, reviewing the law, getting more books, shepardizing. I could spend a whole day back then doing what can be done in thirty minutes with a computer. To the extend of computerized legal research, it was overwhelmingly expensive. There were no word processors to speak of. We still used carbon paper and whiteout for corrections and copies of documents. If I wanted to know something, I would have to make ten telephone calls or a trip to the library. Now Google is available 24 hours a day. Accounting for income and expenses required hours of hand written entries into a ledger and journal. Computers have made all of this far, far easier. Computers have also cut back tremendously on the need for law clerks and associates. That's the way of the world. Don't blame the boomers for that. Blame technology. And it is going to get far worse than better as more and more people find their jobs being taken over by robots. Too bad you were born into this world. Maybe you could have been Jewish and born into Nazi Germany. Or born into war torn Syria in the present day. Baitch, whine, complaint. You act like three years of your life in law school was your entire life. So go out and do something else. Three years is nothing in a lifetime, and the knowledge you learned still has some value. As for the debt . . . as Campos says, if it can't be paid back it won't be paid back. So take the cards you were handed and go out and live your life to the best you can. You still have your youth and hopefully your health. That is far more than the boomers have.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-89393386429985737512015-04-27T12:50:27.093-06:002015-04-27T12:50:27.093-06:00Who knows if some of these schools will even be ar...Who knows if some of these schools will even be around for a sufficient period for this long con to bear fruit...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-42088128327981295482015-04-27T10:29:20.865-06:002015-04-27T10:29:20.865-06:00The irony here is that most of the "whiners&q...The irony here is that most of the "whiners" are probably more intelligent, articulate, and hard-working than 8:26.<br /><br />Let's take this one sentence: "Your more mathematically gifted peers are having less trouble finding jobs in the tech and finance worlds . . . some of them are making billions much quicker than the oil tycoons who made their billions."<br /><br />I have a top undergrad degree, scored better than most of those finance and tech folks on the Math II (like 780), and have real-world post-grad experience in statistical analysis and computer programming. Let's just say that law school wasn't my only choice, and it isn't for most people who went to decent law schools, at least prior to 2013 or so. Law school marginalized me in an economy that everyone says needs more people with my skillset. Instead, I'm unemployed.<br /><br />I'm 32. Do you know how many people my age or younger are actually "billionaires" because of their own hands? Eight. And of the eight, seven are from computer software companies that rose to the top in a swamped marketplace flooded with better programmers and more mathematically-gifted people. Only four of them became billionaires with any relative swiftness. That you even mention these flukes of post-industrial capitalism in a critique of modern law graduates reveals you as someone incredibly out of touch with the real world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-7537884818144745252015-04-27T09:26:49.965-06:002015-04-27T09:26:49.965-06:00Until some of you mature, you will never amount t...Until some of you mature, you will never amount to anything. Blaming generically "boomers", for your predicament is laughable. All over the world there is now an excess of labor given technology has done away with lots of jobs, and even I knew when I went to law school decades ago, that there were far too many lawyers. They were talking about it even then. Sorry that you were not given a warranty and a guarantee with your JD. Sorry that you suck in math and felt that your only choice was to go to law school. Your more mathematically gifted peers are having less trouble finding jobs in the tech and finance worlds . . . some of them are making billions much quicker than the oil tycoons who made their billions. But when you blame Boomers for collecting Social Security and not giving up their jobs . . . I have to wonder what planet you live on and fully understand why some consider you the whining, entitled generation. Grow up. Accept reality. Senior American is not going to give up his SS and/or his job just for you. That you would think he should shows you have zero understanding of human nature . . . and yet so many of you received degrees in the humanities. If you don't understand even the basics of mankind, than obviously not only your JD's ended up being worthless for you, but so to were your undergrad degrees.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-4842109977781355952015-04-27T07:37:04.262-06:002015-04-27T07:37:04.262-06:00Genius! Great work, yet again.Genius! Great work, yet again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-58418653472016235952015-04-27T06:51:18.800-06:002015-04-27T06:51:18.800-06:00As the old saying goes, the apple does not fall fa...As the old saying goes, the apple does not fall far from the tree.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-38682633058387230702015-04-26T17:05:20.116-06:002015-04-26T17:05:20.116-06:00Good advice. There definitely is a niche for Spani...Good advice. There definitely is a niche for Spanish-speaking Latino lawyers, but the scammers are overselling it just like everything else. Probably a fifth of the young Latinos recruited by Hastings will find legal jobs. And then there are always a few who can find non-legal jobs as collectors, pretending to be lawyers and hounding their former classmates.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-43364761972449767462015-04-25T22:40:47.409-06:002015-04-25T22:40:47.409-06:00Old Guy is right. That is why certain younger, mor...Old Guy is right. That is why certain younger, more attractive professors who are/were planning to spend the next 25-30 years on the Student Loan Gravy Train get all huffy when they get called out. Another interesting, and entirely correct point Old Guy makes is about these clowns favoring Millennials over Gen X. for openings. I've seen this outside of law commonly as well. It's as if the 2 asshole generations, much as they despise one another, hate the hard-working Gen-X'ers more. They are almost completely alike as well in their thinking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com