Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be…Lawyers?

Myself a law grad with crippling student loan debt, I was particularly excited to discover the new-ish blog, Big Debt, Small Law.  The blog is written by a graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law who is, to put it mildly, extremely angry about the career/salary prospects for law school graduates from non-top-ranked schools in comparison to tuition costs.  From the About page:

Today’s law school deans are the modern day “Wizards of Oz.” They know full well (perhaps better than anyone) the gruesome market and long-shot odds that their grads will soon face, yet allow personal greed to trump all tenets of honesty and fair disclosure. And no, you can’t get away with blaming the “recession” for the struggles of your grads. Not here. We graduated in 2005, at the zenith of American economic hegemony, and faced a market not significantly different from what exists today. The truth is this: Small firms in most US markets pay south of 50 K, offer minimal (if any) health benefits, and provide baptism by fire “training” at the expense of clients who can ill afford it.