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News: Law Student sues former School for no Lawyer job after 10yrs
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Law Student sues former School for no Lawyer job after 10yrs
Law student who graduated top of her class sues former school after failing to find long-term employment within TEN YEARS
- Anna Alaburda, 37, who graduated top of her class in law school, has yet to find full-time salaried job as a lawyer within 10 years
- She graduated from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2008
- Alaburda's case will be the first of its kind to go to trial
- She is suing the law school, charging that it inflated the employment data for its graduates as a way to get students to enroll
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A former law student, who graduated at the top of her class, is suing her former school, as she has yet to find a full-time salaried job as a lawyer.
It's been nearly a decade since Anna Alaburda, graduated from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law at the top of her class.
After she graduated, she went on to pass the state bar exam and set out to use the law degree that cost her about $150,000, according to The New York Times.
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Former law student, Anna Alaburda (pictured), 37, who graduated at the top of her class, is suing her former school, as she has yet to find a full-time salaried job as a lawyer. It's been nearly a decade since she graduated from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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And like many other law students, Alaburda has yet to pin down a full-time job as a lawyer.
But unlike several students who've tried to sue their respective schools for damages, Alaburda is the first former law student whose case against a law school, will go to trial.
Her case states that the law school inflated the employment data for its graduates as a way to get students to enroll, according to The Times.
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Her lawyer, Brian Procel, told The Times that this will be the first time a 'law school will be on trial to defend its public employment figures'.
Alaburda, who has debt of about $170,000, has worked in various part-time positions, mostly temporary jobs reviewing documents for law firms.
She filed the lawsuit in 2011, arguing that she would not have enrolled at Thomas Jefferson if she had known the law school's statistics were misleading, according to The Times.
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According to the Times, Dean Thomas Guernsey said in a statement that the school has 'a strong track record of producing successful graduates, with 7,000 alumni working nationally and internationally'.
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.
She said that she received only the one job offer, that was less favorable than non-law-related jobs that were available, even after she sent her resume to more than 150 law firms.
Alaburda is asking for $125,000 in damages.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz42K86iM4V
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And pop music forum should care because?
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Originally posted by Lippy
And pop music forum should care because?
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Because not all of us are brainwashed into only reading about pop music lol.
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Oooo, that's a great come-up. Now I know what I'll be doing in 9 years 
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Originally posted by Lippy
And pop music forum should care because?
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Because this is the lounge and not everything on a pop music forum needs to be about pop music
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Originally posted by Lippy
And pop music forum should care because?
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You dont have to be here and/or comment on anything you dont want to lol
OT: Feel bad for her, not sure how far she's going to get with the lawsuit though
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Looks like she's trying to collect all the money she hasn't earned in a decade. 😂
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Originally posted by Lippy
And pop music forum should care because?
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this is why are building walls
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Originally posted by HASHTAGPOW
this is why are building walls
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Yeah, cuz law firms easily give illegal immigrants the jobs law students reject 👀
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 She should be smart to know that liberal arts and all these type of education are over saturated with competition, and she should know that there are no demand for these type of jobs anymore.
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It's not their fault that she is an incompetent mess.
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Will she represent herself 
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Originally posted by James Maslow
Looks like she's trying to collect all the money she hasn't earned in a decade. 😂 |
People like her degrade our economics, not the immigrants.It's hard to find a job, but 10 years?And with law diploma, you have so many possibilities for a good job.Obviously the problem is in her.
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This is why I decided not to go to law school. Would hate to spend all of that money and not find a job.
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This is why I decided not to go to law school. Would hate to spend all of that money and not find a job.
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Every school has it own risks later, it's all about discipline and desire for every job.Believe me, law is one of the best diplomas you can have, but you have to be smart enough to use it correctly.
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Move to another country or city?
Although, I guess that's hard to do with no money 
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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.
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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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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 |
Can't she intern somewhere and make her way up
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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 |
Right that's her own fault for declining a job
**** i would've took that money
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