News: Law Student sues former School for no Lawyer job after 10yrs - Page 2

StonedSoulPicnic

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Originally posted by Haus

Soooo she was expecting a top paying job out the gate? It doesn't always work that way boo most people have to climb the ranks

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sbenci

I hope she loses

getback

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Alaburda was offered a job after she graduated with a law firm that was willing to give her a $60,000 salary, but she turned it down.

your own fault bitch
I'd have taken that job right away

Jan

Sorry for not being sorry. It's not the fault of the university that there is no jobs afterwards. Besides, the job market changes rapidly nowadays so it's hard to predict what will be useful in the future.

accelgors

the job market for competitive fields like law is hard, so i feel sympathy for people having trouble in it, but i highly doubt she could get rejected from 150 firms and not find a job after 10 years if she wasn't doing something wrong. getting a job has to do with things like charisma, attitude, and connections along with schooling, and working hard on something isn't necessarily the same as working on something the right way.

what has she done outside of school? internships, volunteering, making connections, etc? because all of those things are important too.

vamp

Do freelance. Easy.

Dylobs

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Originally posted by Haus

Soooo she was expecting a top paying job out the gate? It doesn't always work that way boo most people have to climb the ranks

Guernica

There are ton of college graduates that have degrees and are having difficulty finding jobs in their field of study. She's hardly the only one. And unless the law school she went to said 100% of graduates will find high paying jobs within x amount of years she has nothing. Not her filing this originally in 2011, only 3 years after she graduated too. Girl was too impatient

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Alaburda was offered a job after she graduated with a law firm that was willing to give her a $60,000 salary, but she turned it down.

her own damn fault. she strikes me as a person that thinks that they deserve the absolute best for no real reason and finds anything less insulting

Taste of Honey

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Originally posted by Jan

Sorry for not being sorry. It's not the fault of the university that there is no jobs afterwards. Besides, the job market changes rapidly nowadays so it's hard to predict what will be useful in the future.

Ehhh...Law is ridiculously hierarchical in the U.S. and going to this school set her up for failure. If you can't get into a Top 14 law school, or at least a strong regional you should NOT go. The unemployment numbers can be scary past the top schools, especially considering the loan amounts you take out. And definitely not a school this far down the list, it's a predatory institution. The employment numbers seem high, but that doesn't mean they're even counting legal jobs. Being employed to them could be working as a cashier to McDonalds.

It's just not worth it. You will likely be a debt slave unless you go into PI.

Anyways it seems like she was gunning for a $160K BigLaw position if she's turning down a $60k job. Which you're not getting unless you go to a Top 14 or are like #1 at a regional school.

Igrt

This is why I would NEVER go to law school, and why I have second thoughts about architecture sometimes.

People, do your research before you pursue degrees in areas such as Law and Medicine. Sometimes getting yourself into six-figure loan debt isn't worth it if you're going into an overcrowded field, so I don't really feel bad for the student. I also don't feel bad for the law school that's getting sued either.

Newt

I mean, the case is about them falsifying information to trick potential students and make their program seem alluring. Which is unethical and manipulative, so she definitely has a case to have them investigate further

Newt

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Originally posted by Taste of Honey

Ehhh...Law is ridiculously hierarchical in the U.S. and going to this school set her up for failure. If you can't get into a Top 14 law school, or at least a strong regional you should NOT go. The unemployment numbers can be scary past the top schools, especially considering the loan amounts you take out. And definitely not a school this far down the list, it's a predatory institution. The employment numbers seem high, but that doesn't mean they're even counting legal jobs. Being employed to them could be working as a cashier to McDonalds.

It's just not worth it. You will likely be a debt slave unless you go into PI.

Anyways it seems like she was gunning for a $160K BigLaw position if she's turning down a $60k job. Which you're not getting unless you go to a Top 14 or are like #1 at a regional school.

Exactly, all this!!! Everyone in the thread whining should read your post.

I'm sorry but if you just spent like 8+ years in higher education at the top of your class, the least you could do is turn down a 60,000 dollar/year job....

It's like yelling at a Doctor for being unemployeed and refusing to take that $15/hour job as a pharmacy technician lmao

Cyanide

Sounds like an ego thing, honestly. I can see her like "I GRADUATED TOP OF MY CLASS, I DESERVE NO LESS THAN 600K" and after realizing she ****ed up taking it out on the school

ariesjow

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Originally posted by Taste of Honey

Ehhh...Law is ridiculously hierarchical in the U.S. and going to this school set her up for failure. If you can't get into a Top 14 law school, or at least a strong regional you should NOT go. The unemployment numbers can be scary past the top schools, especially considering the loan amounts you take out. And definitely not a school this far down the list, it's a predatory institution. The employment numbers seem high, but that doesn't mean they're even counting legal jobs. Being employed to them could be working as a cashier to McDonalds.

It's just not worth it. You will likely be a debt slave unless you go into PI.

Anyways it seems like she was gunning for a $160K BigLaw position if she's turning down a $60k job. Which you're not getting unless you go to a Top 14 or are like #1 at a regional school.

Well said! I was just about to type something similar when I read your post. Doing well at a T14 doesn't even guarantee a BIGLAW job like it practically used to years before the recession.

PrettyHurts

that G.U.Y.

Litigate them, queen!