Leftist law students at elite law schools tend to have oversized sense of self importance and the egos to match, not to mention a highly developed yet undeserved sense of entitlement.
They also, in a fit of TDS, seem to have forgotten the dynamic of the employer-applicant relationship.
Forbes: Law Students Push Back On Firms That Have Capitulated To Trump
This week, first year students at Georgetown Law were required to submit their final rankings of which law firms they most wanted to interview with—for summer associate jobs in 2026, after their second year. The hiring of summer associates hit an 11-year low last year, but these summer gigs are still highly coveted. That’s because they pay more than $4,000 a week and boost the chances students will snag a Big Law job paying $200,000-plus when they graduate after year three, assuming, that is, they excel in law school and don’t have a prestigious judicial clerkship or a public interest law job lined up.
But this year, the 1Ls (as first year law students are known) are confronting an unusual question: Whether or not to rank Skadden Arps; Paul Weiss; Milbank; and Wilkie, Farr and Gallagher among their choices. These four firms have one thing in common: They’ve bent the knee to Trump following the threat of, or the actual signing of, executive orders that aim to restrict their ability to represent clients with government contracts. All four have agreed, for example, to provide a combined total of at least $340 million in pro bono legal work for causes Trump favors and to swear off any “illegal” programs aimed at promoting diversity.
Read the article to see the entitlement inherent in the (rather privileged if one might borrow the term) leftism!
“The legal recruitment process is the only leverage that we really have to influence the behavior of law firms,” says Caleb Frye, a 33-year-old second-year law student and copresident of the Georgetown Law Energy Group
That's not how this works, verily that's not how any of this works.
By not applying, you don't get considered for employment.
Publicly announcing that you're a TDS-infected entitled brat who criticizes decisions of your potential employer and demonstrating you will noisily put your own interest ahead of your potential employers likely renders them as a less-than-desirable hire.
2 comments:
Those idiot 1Ls need to go to askamanager.org and look up the story of the interns who banded together to 'demand' changes in the company dress code because a disabled woman could wear sneakers and it wasn't 'fair' they had to wear leather shoes. The job lot of them got terminated.
Showing your ass even before you get a chance to interview is a great way to get your entire law school blackballed in return.
Rick T: Very true. You don;t bite the hand that feeds you, nor imagine you have more bargaining power than you actually have.
Post a Comment