April 2015

Some good news for once, and I'm not talking about employment. Looks like Charleston School of Law is going belly up. Unfortunately, this was due to its owners getting too greedy and not because the lemmings finally saw the light of day and stopped enrolling, but it's a start.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm

Not seasonally adjusted	April	2014	1,116,000
	February	2015	1,114,700
	March	2015	1,116,000
	April	2015	1,117,700	1,700
Seasonally adjusted	April	2014	1,120,100
	February	2015	1,121,200
	March	2015	1,119,800
	April	2015	1,122,100	2,000
Change from Mar-15 to Apr-15				2,300

Blasphemy!

"We used to care a lot about where you went to school," Google executive Laszlo Bock said. "We found that that has no relationship with how you perform."

Laszlo said the company has shifted its hiring strategies after realizing that a person's academic background bears no relationship to job performance.

"It is a mistake, and we don't focus on that anymore," he said.

http://www.freep.com/story/money/business/michigan/2015/05/05/google-laszlo-bock-work-rules-jobs-hiring/26914267/

Can you believe this shit? Everyone knows that the only thing that matters, the sole currency, the sine qua non of the thriving juggernaut of a legal "profession" is presTTTige!

PresTTTige pays the bills. PresTTTige gets the girl. PresTTTige commands the respect.

In my day, classifieds ads didn't say, "No lawyers need apply." Instead, they said, "Top credentials necessary." [I'm not making this up.]

How dare this upstart tell us otherwise! Moron probably doesn't know what tier Hastings occupies, nor how many Article III clerks Indiana Tech has graduated. Probably can't even identify McCarter & English's peer firms. THOSE are the things that matter!

Don't be mislead by a lowly tech executive who couldn't get hired into S&C's mail room. Let Bob Morse lead you. Let Top-Law-Schools guide you. Let the ABA inspire you. Focus on presTTTige!