Comfort Food for the Economy
When students at New York Law School can’t find work, sometimes they resort to tearing the clothes off of 1Ls. So we applaud Lev Ekster, an NYLS alumnus, for his non-violent approach to the economic crisis:
Recent law school grad Lev Ekster is going from court to cupcakes. When the New York Law School student realized he wouldn’t land a law firm job this year, he turned to entrepreneurship. Inspiration struck after a disappointing trip to Magnolia Bakery, where he waited in an excruciatingly long line for what he deemed a “dry and tasteless” cupcake. “The experience reminded me of my parents’ stories of waiting in line for bread,” says the native Ukrainian.
Yes, this story reminded us of breadlines too.
The mobile cupcake service is called Cupcake Stop, and it should be rumbling by a street corner near you. If you’re interested — not just in cupcakes, but possible employment — take note:
[A]ccording to their recent Twitter post, they’re hiring:Now hiring, part-time and full-time employees in NYC. Food prep license is preferred, not required. Fun job! email jobs@cupcakestop.com
Why shouldn’t every NYLS student get in on the entrepreneurial act? We have additional details, after the jump.
Over at the Cupcake Stop website, we learn about the company’s business plan:
Our business concept is short and simple -
Serve New Yorkers delicious cupcakes on THEIR terms.We know how stressful and fast-paced this city can be, so we park our truck in easily accessible locations and always have fresh cupcakes waiting!
But not everybody who graduates from New York Law School without a job can just start their own mobile business. You need sound financial planning — and a little help from your parents:
After tasting recipes from countless bakers, he found the flavor he craved in former Bouley pastry chef Manal Mady’s creations. The truck will hit various Manhattan neighborhoods from 10 a.m. until 4 a.m. Mr. Ekster used his savings and a loan from his parents for the $25,000 startup costs. So will this be the beginning of the cupcake wars? “With the convenience and quality we’re going to have, I don’t see it being much of a war,” says the confident 25-year-old.
So to be clear: it’s not a war, it’s not a Ukrainian breadline, it’s certainly not a legal job. But as long as everybody keeps their clothes on in the back of the truck, it is certainly a positive development for the reputation of NYLS 3Ls.
Taking cupcakes to the street [Crain’s New York Business]
Cupcake Truck Hits New York [Consumerist]
CupcakeStop cupcake truck coming to NYC in June [Cupcakes Take the Cake]
Earlier: New York Law School: 2 Girls 1 Dress
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the university of miami school of law has a cupcake making course
We're shorting cupcakes. There's a bubble.
the nyu student can probably go teach at New England School of Law if he's really hurting
This summer I will be hosting several private reunions at my residences in NYC and Florida. I thought about offering catering positions to summer associates/associates but those miserable cretins are mostly clumsy and show poor social form. Too bad as it could have provided a splendid opportunity to supplement their wages.
Cupcakes on Salusa Secundus tend to be very dry and hot and contain the thumbs of former convicts who were unfortunate enough to be subject to a high mortality rate.
Just as there is a big difference between U. Penn (Philly campus) and Penn State, there is a big difference between NYU and New York Law School.
I am laughing my head off just thinking about the flaming that this post is going to produce
MysTTTal always speaks the veriTTTas
Ha! That NYU grads have to work for cupcake mills and not for biglaw solidifies NYU's place behind Columbia forever!
~CLS 2L
That's a great idea, cousin!
You should have the city a-buzzin'.
But if your cupcakes don't sell,
Stop by ATL--
I'm sure Elie will order a dozen.
A $3 gourmet cupcake in this economy?
Yeah, good luck, dude. I've got some prime housing in Temecula, CA that I'd like to sell you.
"We are here to make money by billing clients as much as possible that's all. Either fit in or fuck off"
"We are Sutherland and that's how we roll. Suck it"
NYULS sucks
9,
Hey dipshit, NYLS is not the same as NYU
NYU Law is the Honors Program of NYLS.
Here's betting that NYLS will count this guy as "employed" in their US News and World Report figures.
If I rely on promises made by the cupcake truck that they will be parked on Little West 14th street at 11AM, and cab over there just to find an empty parking place, would I maybe have a cause of action against the cupcake truck company to recover my fare?
Partner Emeritus is a great writer!
This is impossible. Dean Matasar claims that the average NYLS grad pulls in 85 grand a year in all the major news surveys. Surely, this guy hasn't networked hard enough.
nyls grads are idiottts
plain and simple
if you know one than you know its the truth
eat my cakes fucko
Louis Zaccareli loves gourmet cupcakes because he can afford them.
Suck it, poors.
haha, this guy went to my high school. I recall he would try really hard to appear cool. I am sure his lame personality did not help his TTT degree.
I long for the days when I could eat cupcakes without a care, blissfully ignorant of the damage that my poor dietary habits were having on my circulatory system. Due to high levels of cholesteral and advanced artheriosclerosis, I experience extreme difficulty achieving or maintaining a state of sexual arousal, even with the assistance of modern medicine. Also, no cupcakes for me, Mr. Ekster!
dmb = nyls IDIOTTT
THERE IS NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER BETWEEN NYU LAW AND NYLS.
Dean Matasar of NYLS who runs the law school is also chairman of the Access Group which makes the loans. Conflict of interest?
I really want to know if this NYLS student was competent enough to get the required permits (which I'm sure aren't easy or cheap) before doing this - after all, I have to imagine there are millions of "entrepreneurs" who'd love to operate their businesses rent-free from the streets of Manhattan. If he didn't think of this, that would make this the best LAW STUDENT FAIL story of all time.
6, there really isn't all that big a difference between the Penn State campuses in Philly and State College academics-wise, but the environment's certainly different.
dude, Partner Emeritus, you rock!
Cupcakes are 2008. It's all about the frozen yogurt with fruit for $6 in 2009.
Serious question re NYULS, does anyone know of any other university that has two separate law school campuses in the same city? I can't think of another one.
25 - Wouldn't both being located in Manhattan be a connection? Oh, and yer an idiot.
Also, yes, NYLS will count this as being employed after graduation. Fuckers.
Make them kosher!!
wait so ... NYU = NYLS?
That makes sense I mean I hadn't realized but I guess they maybe refer to it as NYLS now because the NYU brand failed in getting the brightest students.
I'm glad I didnt apply to NYULS
there really isn't any difference between NYLS and NYU -- everyone is being taught the same cases; some professors are good, others aren't; students join various journals or other associations and compete with each other to get the best grades and try and land good jobs. They should just merge already.
NYC to Cupcakes!
I had NO idea NYLS was affiliated with NYU- eek
ATL readers are psychic: CARTER didn't die yesterday. BUT, a judge he appointed did die yesterday!
"A retired federal judge renowned for his kindness, hard work and fairness in the courtroom died yesterday after a long illness. David Winder, a former chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Utah, was 76 years old.
"A graduate of Stanford Law School, Winder was appointed to the federal bench in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, after a two-year stint in state court."
http://www.abajournal.com/news/federal_judge_david_winder_dies_renowned_for_kindness_fairness/
This is RIDONKULOUS!
this is a sad imitation of the New Haven cupcake truck that started last year: www.followthatcupcake.com
....NYLS, always copying Yale...
Carter appointed someone who went to Samford? Was this guy the only judge from that school?
must be a slow news day
30-
Frozen yogurt with fruit for $6 is so early-2009. The new new thing is opium.
34 -
You're wrong - NYLS and NYULS are actually separate institutions. One of them is a highly regarded law school that produces competent, in-demand graduates.
The other is NYULS.
One has to appreciate the full context of these comments -- coming from people who, I bet, either are collecting unemployment or have lost every last ounce of entrepreneurialism at BigLaw, if they ever had any. Just STFU and go back to filing your weekly unemployment claims; and, if you're "lucky" enough to still have your jobs, go back to your desks and await the orders from the assholes you look up to.
Finally, @26, go back and take a look at NYLS's bar passage rate. I bet Quinn Emanual and other BigLaw firms would be better off hiring top people from schools like NYLS, instead of ideoligic and socially awkward idiots from, ohh... say Yale
I bet, in 5 years this dude will have more money in his bank account, and be happier, than all of the foregoing commentators put together.
partner emertius =! partner emeritus
34 -
You're wrong - NYLS and NYULS are actually separate institutions. One of them is a highly regarded law school that produces competent, in-demand graduates.
The other is NYULS.
If he is a Ukrainian native, he is per se crazy.
THERE IS NO WAY that NYLS is a peer instutitution with Columbia and Chicago -- you guys are idiots! It belongs grouped crappy schools like UPenn.
-- Chicago 2L
real quick... word on the street is it that your blog is read by firm lawyers. :) i'd like to throw something out to them cuz word on the street (it's a chatty street today, it seems) is that summer associateships are starting. and what's a great part about summer associateships???? cupcakes! yumyumyumyumyum.
Good point, 48. I'm Ukrainian, and by definition, most of us are batshit insane (or at least chronic alcoholics).
45- did you reasonably rely on a promise made by NYLS when you decided to go there? You may or may not be entitled to some sort of equitable relief.
52 -- Maybe... but, more importantly, are you on unemployment?
27, 45 etc. = voted for Obama and are a drag on human society
FIRM MEMORANDUM: "Starting tomorrow, we will no longer be offering free Starbucks coffee in the Lobby. Instead, we will be offering $6 cupcakes. Sprinkles are 50 cents extra."
Emeritus = Emertius = Not as funny as you think.
This is RIDONKULOUS
I hear the NYLS grad who got kicked off the Bachelorette (Stephen Reich) is looking for something to do. Maybe he should work that alumni connection and get a job selling cupcakes!
If he thinks the Magnolia Bakery cupcakes are bad, I don't think I'd trust his cupcakes.
eek! i went to nyls!!!
eek! you have aids!
Title should be: "Regular food for MysTTTal"
Title should be: "Regular food for MysTTTal"
Good luck to him.
Hey, that's New York Law School not NYU. We make damn good lawyers, not professors.
Hey, that's New York Law School not NYU. We make damn good lawyers, not professors; just watch while our bar rate passes yours...you can ask cardozo what that feels like.
Uhm, Elie fat fuck alert:
This has been done successfully. It's called CAKELOVE in DC w/Warren Brown. Of course you wouldn't know because you don't research your subject matter nor do you have any grasp of the material about which you write. Also, Cakelove's story is much better than this tool's sobfest about graduating from TTT.
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
Because no one can post in the QE 1st year thread, and I must be heard, I will say it here!
To state the obvious, you need to pass the bar exam to be a lawyer at a law firm. It's not important at all once you've passed, but it's everything until you have.
I think Yale has a unique problem imposing this notion on some persistent segment of its grads. The naturally brilliant are drawn to Yale, and the institution probably indulges their every passing thought, as if they were all worthy of deep consideration. This atmosphere, plus the grading system and the sentiment that merely matriculating at Yale Law makes you a high priest (or priestess) of law probably likely makes it hard for some to focus on something as pedestrian as the bar exam.
The bar exam is a bridge that has to be crossed, and if it is not, your legal career will never start. Let this be a lesson to everyone in law school that studying for the bar exam is not optional -- it's not a logic exam or an IQ test, it's about substantive knowledge that, for the most part, can only be memorized.
I think this is a great idea. I don't see how I'll get a job out of law school with my terrible grades. If anyone has any good ideas for me, please post them here.
Hey 44 and all those that love talking sh** about NYLS. I love how people keep knocking MY school when I bet half of you don't even have jobs. I just graduated from NYLS and in the fall I will be working in the one of DA's offices in the CIty. Every school in the city had students applying for these jobs but when it comes down to it, it looks NYLS placed more students than NYU. What a shame.
And for all the pompus ass ***** who think that every school in NY is better than NYLS think about this. I don't see an huge disparity in the percentage of students your placing in Big law firms, so before all the trash is spoken I would check my facts.
You can say all you want that NYLS may not have class but after reading some of the posts I don't see the other NY law schools putting out anyone better.
I'm a recent Yale grad and hands down i'll say the original cupcake truck in new haven has the best cupcakes and frostings i've ever had in the tri state area.