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Cheapness

The DOJ Wants You, Experienced Attorneys — To Work for Free

U.S. Attorney's Offices around the country have been posting unpaid Special Assistant United States Attorney positions for some time now. We covered them last May. David Lat defended the SAUSA gigs, arguing that the nonpaying jobs might not be as bad as they seem. It's fun, exciting work, and it provides valuable experience and serious professional credibility. There is a crucial, ominous difference between then and now, though. Previous SAUSA jobs were generally aimed at entry-level or fairly junior attorneys. Now we've got a recent opening that's asking for more.…

By Christopher Danzig
Barack Obama

Morning Docket: 09.15.11

* “If you love me you’ll pass this bill.” Sorry, Obama, but even the Democrats are busy washing their hair on this one. How about we pass a resolution like this instead? I’d totally love Obama for that. [New York Times] * What’s with town clerks in New York and gay marriage licenses? If you […]

By Staci Zaretsky
Bad Ideas

Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Stripper?
From the Bar to the Pole

Most women who go to law school think that their advanced education will buy them out of taking their clothes off for money (unless, you know, it's partner money). But as a practical reality, stripper skills are very useful. For today's tale of a lawyer cum stripper, we have a young lady who has ended up stripping to pay her bills and law school debts. It's not a sob story, though; she says that in one sense the job is less hostile than any law office she’s worked in...

By Elie Mystal
Bar Exams

Bar Review Diaries: The End Is The Beginning

If you took the bar exam last month, you might be trying hard to forget the experience, or you might be flying far, far away on an exotic vacation. Maybe you are counting the days until results come out in November, or maybe you’re frantically searching for employment before those organ bill collectors start knocking. […]

By Christopher Danzig
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 05.09.11

* This identical-twin date-rape ad probably wasn’t vetted through legal. [Copyranter] * Adultery is still illegal in Colorado because…? Maybe state legislators are worried that a “favors adultery” attack ad could work? [WSJ Law Blog] * The legal industry added jobs in April. [Am Law Daily] * Law firms still find the time to be […]

By Elie Mystal
Bar Exams

Law School Seeks One-Eyed Man To Lead Blind

You don’t see this every day. We have one law school offering the recent graduates of more prestigious law schools the job of teaching its law students how to pass the bar. It’s probably a great opportunity for people with only limited experience to get into legal academia, but man, I think it would make […]

By Elie Mystal
Job Searches

Law Schools Lie Like A Dog… Or A Rug. A Dog On A Rug.

I graduated from Northwestern Law in 2009. It is now 2011, my loans are coming due (real due — not the fake, put ‘em in forebearance, due of yesteryear), and I am currently “employed” doing two things: reviewing documents at an embarrassing hourly wage on projects that start and stop without any sort of consistency, […]

By Juggalo Law
Craigslist

Pathetic Job Potpourri

Whenever it feels like things are getting better in the legal economy, Craigslist shows up to remind everybody just how crappy things still are. If you want to know why there is a higher education bubble (and there is a higher education bubble), you need only look at the kind of pathetic salaries offered to […]

By Elie Mystal
Fashion

Non-Sequiturs: 03.31.11

* Ex-Marc Jacobs International CFO is suing the company for allegedly making him look at gay porn. Wait, you can sue people for that? [Fashionista] * Monty, the Yale Law School Therapy Dog, is already being billed out to the max. How long before Monty develops a superiority complex and a coke habit? [NPR] * […]

By Elie Mystal
Job Searches

Lewis & Clark Law School Subtly Insults Its Alumni

Recent law grads already know this, but humor me for a moment while I bring the law students up to speed. Dear 3Ls, if you graduate with no job, your school will start telling you about how your law school’s career services will still be available for you after you graduate. It’s February, so expect […]

By Elie Mystal
Advertising

Announcing the New Above the Law Job Board

We previously mentioned it in passing, but in case you missed it, here’s the news: Above the Law has launched a new jobs board. This is a feature that readers and advertisers have been requesting for a while, and we’re delighted to roll it out. Right now the job board is in its infancy; it […]

By Above the Law
Biglaw

K&L Gates Still Cares About Your LSAT Score

Whether or not you think that the LSAT should be important, we all know that it is important. Scoring well on the LSAT is absolutely crucial to getting into a good law school. But usually the power of the LSAT fades after you matriculate to a law school. Usually people who are concerned about your […]

By Elie Mystal