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Public Defender Gets Six Figures Of Law School Loans Forgiven

She's one of the first lawyers to get her loans erased through this program.

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I’ve been trying to do this for 10 years. I only know one other person who actually got it. I’ve always been secretly convinced that when it was my time, I wouldn’t get it. Even though I was pretty sure that I’d done everything right. That’s why I put it on Twitter. It’s good that people know it’s hard, but they also need to know it’s possible. There’s hope.

— Jessica Buck, a 2010 graduate of Wake Forest University School of Law who has been working as a public defender in Danville, Kentucky, for the past decade, commenting on the forgiveness of her $275,000 loan balance through the government’s Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. She is one of the first lawyers to have been able to take full advantage of this program. How was she able to do it? “You have to be your own advocate. You have to be your own record keeper,” she said.

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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