tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22020163.post800375006211499253..comments2023-10-24T07:28:50.297-04:00Comments on Thinking on the Margin: The Irresponsibility of Law Schools = Fraud in the Inducement?Brian Hollarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09365101283657395331noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22020163.post-49946242833121488882010-10-20T11:07:52.080-04:002010-10-20T11:07:52.080-04:00The distribution thing is a nice idea, but tricky ...The distribution thing is a nice idea, but tricky to measure. For example, my girlfriend is graduating law school and has a clerkship lined up for next year. Clerkships typically pay about $50K and last for a year: they are stepping stones to better positions and law firms (jobs of which are usually secured in the summer before your final year of school). That big pile mound of $50K in the distribution graph is surely composed of many clerkships. Like a student who will make money in the future once they graduate, I don't consider them "poor" in the same way as a person who'll be working their current (relativity) low-paying job in the near future.<br /><br />The distribution problem is not easy to solve: when do you measure? Graduates can go in a clerkship immediately, work at a firm and go in later, skip the clerkship altogether, never do either, or do a clerkship and then do something outside of a law firm. I suppose distributions at 1 year, 3 years, and 5 years out of school would do the trick?Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14364155797420903461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22020163.post-37629145532775429722010-10-19T23:10:33.674-04:002010-10-19T23:10:33.674-04:00Could not happen to a nicer bunch of people!Could not happen to a nicer bunch of people!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com