If you’re a public defender (or just about any other government or “public service” lawyer) with student loans, you’ve probably heard that there’s a way to get your federal loans forgiven after you make payments for a while. Well, it’s true! Just make 120 “qualifying” payments on “eligible” loans while working “full time” in [...]
Hey look, my law school class president just won top honors for an iPhone app he helped design for a Micro$oft event. Awkward is right. I love it. Congratulations, Eric!n (via DF)
Random thought while reading 9 REasons Not to Attend Law School”: Lawyers who regret and complain about choosing to become lawyers are a little like addicts complaining about taking their first drink, hit, whatever. Shut up and deal, people.
And yes, I’m talking to myself here.
BTW: I’m still trying to figure out what to [...]
Kim, formerly of the blog known as “Law Mom,” has returned to blogging at the same url but under the title “The Merits of the Case.” Kim started blogging a couple of years ago as she started law school; her goal at the time was to write about what it was like for a mother with several children to rearrange her life in order to attend law school full time while also continuing to be a mom.
There are many reasons not to go to law school. One is that it puts you in so much debt.
The Miami Herald recently ran a story about how hard it is for public interest lawyers to pay their law school debt. Boy, do I feel that pain.
It seems the students currently attending my alma mater ((I think “bountiful mother” is really over the top as a moniker for a school you’ve attended. Perhaps that’s why only pretentious putzes — such as myself, apparently — use silly latin phrases like that.)) are finding themselves w/far too much time on their hands.
I had a random dream about law school last night — the first I can remember in a long time. Class was getting out and I was stuffing my notes into a big accordian file when another student asked me if I thought maybe it was time to try to organize my things a little more. In my mind I realized that this student knew that I was just stuffing every note and paper I got from law school into this file and never looking at it again.
PD Wannabe is loving her ((I’m making a gender guess here…. winter break from law school. I’m so jealous I think I might cry.
What is this site trying to accomplish? For some reason I suspect it’s been created by someone who opposes the war and is sort of saying “I told you so” as he/she watches Republicans catch a clue.
