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Originally Posted by ADqtPiMel
Thank you for the advice. We're not comfortable enough with giving up the retail paycheck (and it is a decent retail job, not one he's likely to find again) to take the chance on solo practice. He's at the court twice a week, sometimes more, and sees more lawyers waiting around to represent the unrepresented than there are cases. It's a risky move at this point for us, and we don't have much of a safety net if it fails.
And big firm jobs aren't even on his radar -- the only person we know out here who managed to go the traditional big firm route is a high school friend who graduated top 10% from Stanford, and even she had her offer deferred. He's looking at the government, smaller boutique firms, and clerkships with judges.
I don't have any interest in belaboring this point -- just saying that people directed toward DC as the Land of Jobs are going to be disappointed.
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If that's what he's doing, he can probably start doing bankruptcy. Good software only costs a few hundred bucks (and isn't 100% necessary, but saves work). Do some chapter 7s and 13s. Fortunately for y'all (and unfortunately for others), there's as much bankruptcy right now as there was back in '05 when the new bankruptcy laws limiting chapter 7s were taking effect. Nice thing about bankruptcy is that you'll always have a lot of notice ahead of time as to when hearings are and there are generally no emergencies.
He might associate with similarly situated classmates so they can cover eachothers' hearings when work schedules conflict.
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