{"id":2213,"date":"2009-02-12T19:19:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T19:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2009-02-12T19:19:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T19:19:12","slug":"not_enough_liti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2213","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Litigious Jerks To Go Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a junior attorney in a large law firm and you still have a job to go to tomorrow, consider yourself lucky. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abovethelaw.com\/layoffs\/\">flurry of pink slips<\/a> went out today to associates in major firms around the country including Faegre &amp; Benson, a Minneapolis firm that recruited several of my former classmates. My sympathies go out to any 2L or 3L who&#8217;s seeking employment. You might want to consider doing what a friend of mine did. After she practiced law for a few years, she decided that she wanted to study medicine. So she took the MCAT and got accepted into Stanford med school. <\/p>\n<p>(I have some freakishly smart friends. Just thinking about it is giving me an inferiority complex)<\/p>\n<p>But back to my original point. Sure, you&#8217;ll have to take on some additional debt, but you&#8217;ll get to wear a lab coat and ogle the naked bodies of strangers. That&#8217;s way more fun than writing a brief on eminent domain. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a junior attorney in a large law firm and you still have a job to go to tomorrow, consider yourself lucky. A flurry of pink slips went out today to associates in major firms around the country including Faegre &amp; Benson, a Minneapolis firm that recruited several of my former classmates. My sympathies <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2213' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-zH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}