Comments on: Thinking About a Public Service Legal Career? http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/04/09/thinking-about-a-public-service-legal-career/ law for the rest of us Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:58:41 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Deposition on Debt: Legal Andrew | The Frugal Law Student http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/04/09/thinking-about-a-public-service-legal-career/comment-page-1/#comment-26990 Deposition on Debt: Legal Andrew | The Frugal Law Student Mon, 14 May 2007 12:50:52 +0000 http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/04/09/thinking-about-a-public-service-legal-career/#comment-26990 [...] extremely lucky. UVa Law has a great loan forgiveness program. Since I’m going to be in public service, the school will pay my law school loans for me. I’ll put my law school loans on a 10-year [...] [...] extremely lucky. UVa Law has a great loan forgiveness program. Since I’m going to be in public service, the school will pay my law school loans for me. I’ll put my law school loans on a 10-year [...]

]]> By: 3 Steps to Career Zen » financial zen http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/04/09/thinking-about-a-public-service-legal-career/comment-page-1/#comment-21530 3 Steps to Career Zen » financial zen Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:48:16 +0000 http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/04/09/thinking-about-a-public-service-legal-career/#comment-21530 [...] have an incredibly low satisfaction rate? Albeit I came across a law blog - Legal Andrew talking about going into the Public Service - less money, higher satisfaction! I considered this [...] [...] have an incredibly low satisfaction rate? Albeit I came across a law blog – Legal Andrew talking about going into the Public Service – less money, higher satisfaction! I considered this [...]

]]> By: Blog Scouts: Personal Management | The Frugal Law Student http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/04/09/thinking-about-a-public-service-legal-career/comment-page-1/#comment-21504 Blog Scouts: Personal Management | The Frugal Law Student Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:35:17 +0000 http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/04/09/thinking-about-a-public-service-legal-career/#comment-21504 [...] first submission to the Blog Scout’s Personal Management writing project from Legal Andrew. Andrew decided to write about requirement 10: writing about the pros and cons of his future career a... Andrew has done an excellent job analyzing the upsides and downsides of a career in public law. Go [...] [...] first submission to the Blog Scout’s Personal Management writing project from Legal Andrew. Andrew decided to write about requirement 10: writing about the pros and cons of his future career a… Andrew has done an excellent job analyzing the upsides and downsides of a career in public law. Go [...]

]]> By: Andrew Flusche http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/04/09/thinking-about-a-public-service-legal-career/comment-page-1/#comment-21402 Andrew Flusche Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:15:57 +0000 http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/04/09/thinking-about-a-public-service-legal-career/#comment-21402 Nick, Hey, I just wasn't too into the merit-badge earning. I was Quartermaster and Librarian (not at the same time). I was crucial to the troop. Well, when I didn't forget the Scout Master's tent. :) Andrew Nick,

Hey, I just wasn’t too into the merit-badge earning. I was Quartermaster and Librarian (not at the same time). I was crucial to the troop. Well, when I didn’t forget the Scout Master’s tent. :)

Andrew

]]> By: Andrew Flusche http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/04/09/thinking-about-a-public-service-legal-career/comment-page-1/#comment-21401 Andrew Flusche Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:12:36 +0000 http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/04/09/thinking-about-a-public-service-legal-career/#comment-21401 Chuck, Thank you for the great comment. You're absolutely right that law schools should have full fledged public service firms. I believe UVA is doing something along those lines now, but I could be wrong. What disturbs me is the surprisingly low number of my fellow UVA grads who will be entering full-time public service. I believe the number is at 18 (out of ~350). Take care, Andrew Chuck,

Thank you for the great comment. You’re absolutely right that law schools should have full fledged public service firms. I believe UVA is doing something along those lines now, but I could be wrong.

What disturbs me is the surprisingly low number of my fellow UVA grads who will be entering full-time public service. I believe the number is at 18 (out of ~350).

Take care,
Andrew

]]> By: Nick Kasoff http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/04/09/thinking-about-a-public-service-legal-career/comment-page-1/#comment-21397 Nick Kasoff Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:34:14 +0000 http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/04/09/thinking-about-a-public-service-legal-career/#comment-21397 Only one merit badge in five years? You sucked, dude! I was one of the most pitiful scouts in history, and if I remember right, I earned a couple of dozen before getting booted. Nick Kasoff <a href="http://www.thugreport.com" rel="nofollow">The Thug Report</a> Only one merit badge in five years? You sucked, dude! I was one of the most pitiful scouts in history, and if I remember right, I earned a couple of dozen before getting booted.

Nick Kasoff
The Thug Report

]]> By: chuck Newton http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/04/09/thinking-about-a-public-service-legal-career/comment-page-1/#comment-21390 chuck Newton Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:47:43 +0000 http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/04/09/thinking-about-a-public-service-legal-career/#comment-21390 I was always of the opinion that this would be such a comfortable way to practice law. Granted you would not get rich, but you would hopefully make enough that your basic needs are covered. You are not put in that eat what you kill environment. Also, you get to concentrate your work, your thoughts, your purpose along a certain set of ideals and law. You can become familiar with the practical arguments as well as the legal. It is more closely akin to philosophy of the law. In this same light, I have often thought that law schools really need to move out of their purely legal clinic environment and form what are truly public interest law firms. They could, by and large, be self supporting. It would allow them, at some point, to actually employ some law students, and this would be helpful toward education. They could actually work students who wished through most stages of law school, and even employee some for a year or two after law school. It could be more like the incubator that it needs to be. South Texas College of Law, for example, does this with their extensive appellate advocacy program, that has one it some many awards. How about actual advocacy programs? How about actual cases? I was always of the opinion that this would be such a comfortable way to practice law. Granted you would not get rich, but you would hopefully make enough that your basic needs are covered. You are not put in that eat what you kill environment. Also, you get to concentrate your work, your thoughts, your purpose along a certain set of ideals and law. You can become familiar with the practical arguments as well as the legal. It is more closely akin to philosophy of the law.

In this same light, I have often thought that law schools really need to move out of their purely legal clinic environment and form what are truly public interest law firms. They could, by and large, be self supporting. It would allow them, at some point, to actually employ some law students, and this would be helpful toward education. They could actually work students who wished through most stages of law school, and even employee some for a year or two after law school. It could be more like the incubator that it needs to be.

South Texas College of Law, for example, does this with their extensive appellate advocacy program, that has one it some many awards. How about actual advocacy programs? How about actual cases?

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