Readings That Remind Me of Class

A young lawyer who didn't get to pawn his license "an interesting essay by a lawyer who graduated in 2007 into the waiting arms of unemployment. He decided to begin helping people who were deep underwater on their mortgages by trying to get them loan modifications. This is the story of his first client and his first encounter with Wells Fargo. Also includes an interesting side note about new California law that discourages lawyers from taking on these types of cases."

-- JohnSchwab - 26 Feb 2010

Why she went to law school

-- DRussellKraft - 24 Feb 2010

"DNA's Dirty Little Secret"

This article concerns "cold hit" DNA prosecutions. These occur when the police, with no particular suspect in mind, run DNA evidence through a database of prior offenders. This method has a high probability of false matches, one-third in the case in the article, but is still used as key evidence at trial. -- JohnAlbanese - 25 Feb 2010

Harvard 3Ls Can't Find Jobs

Do people really believe that, even at the top law schools, they're entitled to a 160K job? No profession other than law allows 25 year olds to make that kind of money with no relevant work experience and by judging them on one year of grades and a name. We are basically handed summer associate positions at EIP next fall- that is a deal that is too good to be true and anyone who has even a toe in the real world should have known it wasn't going to last.