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Inside the Law School Scam
Personal blog · insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.comcareer
Inside the Law School Scam is a personal blog at insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.com about career. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Paul Campos's blog on legal education, covering law school applications, costs, job outcomes and the bar exam. Commenters cite it on law school economics, and one calls its pieces tragi-comic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-14
What Hacker News says?
What's the source for your 20% figure and have you read any of Paul Campos' work on the state of legal education in this country? He's been saying for years that it's a scam. Only half of graduates get jobs as lawyers, applications are way down, and this year schools have been accepting more people with lower LSAT scores in an attempt to keep admissions up. This interview has a summary of some of his claims at the e…
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on “A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn”Submitted The blog, Inside the law school scam, is coming to end. as a story · 1 points
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on “California Supreme Court Moves to Make Bar Exam Easier to Pass”Student loans don't discharge in bankruptcy. Also, the odds are not decent of landing a "sweet job that lets you pay [loans] off much more easily and have plenty of money to spare." Take a look at the bimodal distribution for starting lawyer salaries.[1] In 2011, less than 6% of graduates got jobs at large law firms paying $160k.[2] I don't know current attrition rate stats, but generally most of the entry-level cla…
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on “Law school applications are collapsing”Original article on Professor Paul Campos' blog: http://insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.com/2012/12/applicati...
Comment linking /2012/12/applications-to-law-school-are.html
on “Law school applications are collapsing”I was a faithful reader of the law school scam blog before he furlowed it, a lot of his pieces were almost tragi-comic on a scale of Aeschylus and Euripides and those guys e.g. http://insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.com/2013/02/straight-...
Comment linking /2013/02/straight-out-of-scarsdale.html
on “A Case for Grade Inflation in Legal Education”I strongly dispute that the investment/payoff ratio is worse for M.D.s than J.D.s. Lawyers 44-173K (Imputed median 108k) General Surgeon 225K Paediatrician, General 95K Family Physician 164K For various "Physician" categories the median goes from 118 to 217K. (All salary data taken from payscale.com) This neglects the fact that most people who finish medical school get fulltime permanent jobs as doctors, while getti…
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on “Don’t Go Pre-Med: My Advice to a Yale Student Worried About Her Future”