the Harvard law school announcement: worse than I realized
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/us/18l…
  Concerned by the low numbers of law students choosing careers in public service, Harvard Law School plans to waive tuition for third-year students who pledge to spend five years working either for nonprofit organizations or the government.
Ahhhhhh!
March 19th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Lawyers are like cockroachs. Once you get an infestation, it takes alot of poison to get rid of them.
March 19th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
If its anything like the program at my law school ‘working for the government’ does not include the military.
March 19th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
They (Harvard law grads) must have low E(salary) if these poobahs think the true value of one year of their law education equates favorably to five freakin’ years in the public or non-profit sector/
March 19th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
skh.pcola, I don’t think the proposal is aimed at students who are trying to maximize their near-term earnings. It’s aimed at the crowd who claim that they want to work for “social justice” but can’t afford to, because they borrowed all of their law school tuition and the monthly payment on that debt is scary-close to the monthly salary paid by government work; slashing their debt would mean there’s something left over for rent and food and car payments after the student loans are paid.
I said “near-term” above, because being a lawyer who spent 20 years inside a regulatory agency, and rose to a middling-high level therein, is an *excellent* way to make partner by 50 at a private law firm or lobbying firm working in said agency’s area of responsibility.