{"id":182294,"date":"2015-10-27T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/27\/yes-10\/"},"modified":"2015-10-27T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T03:01:00","slug":"yes-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/27\/yes-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2015\/10\/law-school-scam-getting-worse\/412159\/?utm_source=SFTwitter\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Are InfiniLaw Schools Scamming Students and the Federal Government<\/span><\/b><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2015\/10\/the-end-of-big-law.html\">Atrios<\/a>, who also pithily notes both that the not-for-profit schools are hip deep in this sh%$ as well.<\/p>\n<p>He further notes that law professors are overpaid, and that the suggestion that they would make money hand over fist if they went back to the private sector is specious.<\/p>\n<p>If you do the math, associates are expected to <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Bill<\/span><\/b> about 1800 hours a year, which given the rule of thumb that you need to work somewhere between 1\u2153 and 1\u00bd hours for each billable hour is a soul destroying work environment.<\/p>\n<p>Do the math.&nbsp; That is&nbsp; 48-54 hours a week, year in and year out.<\/p>\n<p>The people who are teaching future lawyers are doing so because they don&#8217;t want that life.<\/p>\n<p>This is why you have so many top flight lawyers are so eager to become judges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are InfiniLaw Schools Scamming Students and the Federal Government? H\/T Atrios, who also pithily notes both that the not-for-profit schools are hip deep in this sh%$ as well. He further notes that law professors are overpaid, and that the suggestion that they would make money hand over fist if they went back to the private &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,968,975],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-education","category-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}