What is with these faux-glamour, "Lean into the camera like you're an aggressive, confident mercenary lawyer" shots? They scream overpackaging, "marketing as lawyering" to me.

That's why I make sure to pick my nose in every professional photo op.

I can blame her. I pay my taxes every year and I make much less than she does -- plus I have zero equity and LOANS to pay off, and I'm struggling to save up for a downpayment on a home. If I can pay my taxes, she can pay hers.

agreed. anyone making $250K-$1.5 million is exempt from paying taxes. people not in that range do not understand how hard it is to keep up appearances while living on such a meager salary.

Hey! I lived in NYC on $29,500/year, and I didn't see myself as a "pauper."

Okay, I lived in a 2-room, basement, cold-water dive, but I got by!

Bitch should be assraped in a federal pen

Is this becoming xoxo?

Lat, is there a way to prevent those people from coming here?

1:51, shrink had to cancel today?

isn't that take a bit low for a finance partner in NYC biglaw (or midlaw, depending on how much of a prestige whore you are)

I didn't know Madeline Albright had a daughter?

1:59 -- That would be the amount of her compensation attributable to NY, with the rest spread out over the firm's other offices.

what else can you expect from an NYLS JD

Madeline Albright? You've got to be kidding me. More like Cameron Manheim.

You will not believe how many partners do not pay their taxes, especially in the first couple of years of partnership how end up getting hit with huge IRS liens laters. I've given a ton of huge loans to big law partners to pay off the IRS because they failed to pay their taxes 10 years before.

I used to work for Justine Clark. All I can say is that it couldn't have happened to a nicer woman. [sarcasm]

The joke around the office was that she looked like the disguise Schwarzenegger uses in "Total Recall" when traveling to Mars - the heavy woman who only says, "Two weeeeks..."

1:38
you HAVE to pay your taxes b/c you get a W-2. fancy pants partners get a k-1, which the IRS still sucks at matching to your 1040

4:28, so... because it's easier for them to break the law, therefore it's more acceptable?

Trying to wrap my mind around that logic...

I also used to work for her. She was the only person at the entire firm I could not stand, and that's saying a lot. Karma's a bitch, Justine.

She may have only gotten a slap on the wrist, but the attorney ethics proceedings have yet to come. In my state this is the stuff of disbarment, or at least a heavy suspension...

"Ms. Clark's practice focuses on banking and structured finance, including asset backed lending transactions, capital markets transactions, leveraged leasing transactions, securitizations, cross border tax leasing, and bank regulatory matters."

Apparently said practice does not include advising her clients on compliance with Federal tax laws and regulations.

It looks like she needed the extra 200K to spend on food. For a week.

I summered at KDW and in my few interactions with her she was pretty haughty/unappealing. She was definitely one that they keep the summers away from, though generally the people at KDW were incredibly nice

Looks like Janet Reno and Madeleine Albright had a love child.

5:31 here,

I want to add that my interactions with Justine were minimal so my opinion is based on very little

4:49

not implying it is acceptable

just informing a prior poster as to WHY she got away with it for so long. whereas us wage slaves (even highly paid ones) get nabbed immediately for 1040/W2 mismatching

that has got to be the "large" woman from boston legal

sorry, i meant the practice

I think what she did was horrible, but I also think that the fat jokes are unnecessarily cruel. Get a life, people.

She is still on the KDW website. She is criminal. Is KDW the new Criminals R Us?

if you can get disbarred for not paying the greedy government their tribute (aka taxes), this profession is nothing more than elitest whores. since when is civil disobedience unethical? is this soviet russia? if the government sloths want their money thats between them and miss piggy.

uh, 6:19, your libertarian sentiments are impressive, but I don't think this was an act of civil disobedience. This woman ain't no Martin Luther King. Her failure to pay taxes was clearly the result of greed, not principled disobedience.

re: the jokes in this thread. I laughed. Is that wrong?

FAT FAT FAT.

She failed to file for five years running? She is a persistant little porker, isn't she?

Well, if she gets disbarred, there's always a career in competitive eating. Mike Nifong has no such prospects.

reading the Temporary Attorneys blog was pretty depressing. Do all of those third tier losers have such miserable lives and careers?

Yes, and many ex-associates.

Read this post by Loyola 2L on the WSJ blog. It's pretty sad.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/07/03/law-blog-lawyers-of-tomorrow-adams-jefferson/#comments

I used to have so much fun on the fourth of July, before tier 2 misery destroyed my spirit.

Before law school, the fourth was a day of celebration. I would look at my opportunities and rejoice in the wonder which is this country. Where else could someone from an inexpensive state university make $50,000 a year? Life was good. I had my own apartment, a car, a refrigerator full of groceries, health insurance and could afford to sock a little away each month. Maybe I wasn’t a Goldman trader, or a movie star, but it was as close to the American dream as one could get.

Then came the day I enrolled in Loyola Law School. Why? Why did I do it? Why did I let the siren’s song of a “prestigous law degree” ruin my life? Why did I believe people when they said a Loyola degree is a certain ticket to a high paying job? Why did I pay $36,000 a year to enter a fool’s game - one where only 10% are allowed to win, and the winners are chosen by the whims of capricious old men? Sigh. These are the questions which now haunt my life, as I work for $15/hour in a legal sweatshop. I used to have a future. I used to be enthused with the goodness and opportunity which is America. Now I’m enthused with regret and a feeling that I’ve been ripped off. Now all I have to look forward to is the same $50,000 job, but this time under the stranglehold of massive Sallie Mae debt.

My only hope is the Loyola job board. I check it every day. Why I don’t know. I feel like a castaway on a desert Island, who gets up every morning to look for a rescue ship. Of course there is no rescue ship, and the only jobs available to non top 10%ers like me are:

Employer Name: xxx
Contact Name: xxx
Address: xxx Wilshire Boulevard
City: Los Angeles, CA 90025
Telephone: 310-xxx
Facsimile: No Fax Specified
E-Mail: xxx
Description: HOURS: Part/Full time (25-40 hrs. per week) DURATION: Permanent. SALARY: $12-$17/hour JOB DESCRIPTION: Law firm is seeking an experienced person, preferably someone with a solid background dealing with computers and computer programs such as PowerPoint, Microsoft Word/Excel, Lexus Nexus, Sanction Software, and scanning. Medical knowledge/experience a plus but not required. Applicant should have a 30 minute or less commute to Brentwood. Position will handle general office and litigation support, factual and/or legal research, organization and filing, follow up on document requests. EMPLOYER PRACTICE/DESCRIPTION: Plaintiff’s contingency fee tort. FIRM SIZE: Attorney and secretary. HOW TO APPLY: Submit resume and cover letter via email to xxx
Date Entered: 06/29/07

Then again at least I have plaintiff’s firms to offer *something.* Without them I couldn’t work in law.

Comment by Loyola 2L - July 3, 2007 at 5:08 pm

3:33 -

No kidding. That's incredibly depressing. Although it makes me feel better about getting into a Tier 1 school and working a Biglaw summer associateship. :-D

private tier 3 law schools are ABA sanctioned fraud upon the students. Its horrible that the ABA lets the false marketing go on.

What fraud? If you don't know that your chances of getting a good legal job out of a non-1st tier school are about 10%, then you didn't do your homework.

It's basically the lottery mentality - even if you know going in that there's a slim chance that any given person will get a sought-after job after graduating from such a school, the statistics are easy to ignore because YOU'RE going to be in that 10%!!!!!!11

This is why if you don't get into a first tier law school you shouldn't go - and if you do, nobody is going to be sympathetic to your whining.

wow, you could be a defense attorney for a half the scam artists in america.

Actually, I know nothing about fraud as a legal concept, so I won't go there. But if you don't think there is moral culpability in the way career prospects and numbers are presented to the average law student, and especially against the backdrop of popular opinion about lawyer salaries, then in my opinion your expectations of the average consumer's ability are unduly high.

I think moral culpability is enough for me to condemn a law school on a message board, especially since as major proponents of liberal socialist thought they can at least not be two faced about things.

The term "opportunist" can be used to denote "good businessperson" or something along the lines of "shyster." How it is used depends on the circumstances. I submit that private low ranked law schools are "opportunists."

I agree with you on the moral culpability angle. The government should step in and shut these law schools down.

For example, my law school, BLS, publishes that the average private sector grad. earns $112K a year. Who really believes that figure isn't a product of massive statistical manipulation?

Lat should do a poll - should the ABA or the States allow so many third and fourth tier law schools if it is true that the grads are not getting jobs.

Marianna- you are correct - only need look in the phone book under "A" to confirm.

She looks more like an extremely bloated Hillary I like no RODham Clinton, NOT Madeline Albright.

This thread is really cruel - why attack a person you don't know based on her looks? What's her appearance have to do with anything? I have met Justine personally (don't know her well) and this doesn't seem consistent with what I have experienced of her. She seems very thorough and ethical and I wouldn't be surprised if the reporting wasn't accurate. The reports were in Daily News and New York Post, right? The ones that love damning headlines and love stories with slants on them? I'd consider the reports more accurate if the Wall Street Journal (or, maybe, the New York Times) was the one doing the reporting. Seems like hit and run reporting to me. Don't believe everything you read. Let's be a bit more skeptical and a bit more compassionate shall we?