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Compared to 2010, the legal economy is in much better shape. People are getting jobs, Biglaw is raising salaries, and law schools have arrested the downward spiral on applications.
But as any millennial can tell you, that does not mean we’ve returned to the pre-2007 “models and bottles” days. The debt for legal, and most other post-graduate education, is crushing. And outside of Biglaw, there are few legal jobs that can support the kind of debt load many law students are graduating with.

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So… let’s make fun of that:
It’s funny because it’s true. So, so true.

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Elie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at [email protected]. He will resist.