<p>I can’t believe the amount of complaining that goes on in these boards. If you do any research, most of the famous lawyers in high profile cases went to regional schools. Why is it so important to work at those big firms? I was a mail clerk at one and their policies were horrible for working people. If you want to make big money, become a businessman or investor. Law is more than money. It is considered a high calling or used to be. How about fighting for justice? How about representing people who have no voice? If I were to go to law school it would be with those goals in mind and not the emptiness of slaving for some snob firm.
I suggest people rent the verdict with paul newman and to kill a mockingbird. These were lawyers who epitomized what a lawyer should be.</p>
<p>^^^ Yeah, well try that in 2010. It’s a different world out there. Even in the mid-70s there were some students in law school with me who were going to “fight for justice”. Not very many of them wound up doing that- at least not in the sense YOU mean. They were fighting for justice for their corporate clients over at Kirkland and Ellis!</p>
<p>The problem is the debt of law grads. There needs to be more of a concerted effort to prevent the racking up of such debt. In college it is considered smart to go public and not have debt. Perhaps this mentality would serve the law community well also.</p>
<p>I hardly think that Paul Newman’s character in the “The Verdict” epitomizes what a lawyer should be. Atticus Finch epitomizes what a man should be.</p>
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