LAWYER SUES LAW SCHOOL AFTER NO LAWYER JOB IN TEN YEARS

A former law student, who graduated at the top of her class, is suing her former school because she has yet to find a full-time salaried job as a lawyer. It’s been nearly ten years since Anna Alaburda graduated at the top of her class from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, a private law school in San Diego, California. After she graduated, she went on to pass the state bar exam and set out to use the law degree that cost her about $150,000. Alaburda, who has debt of about $170,000, has worked in various part-time positions, mostly temporary jobs reviewing documents for law firms. She filed the lawsuit in 2011, arguing that she would not have enrolled at Thomas Jefferson if she had known the law school’s statistics were misleading. The school’s Dean Thomas Guernsey said in a statement that the school has “a strong track record of producing successful graduates, with 7,000 alumni working nationally and internationally.” (On the other hand, online rankings and reviews of the school are quite low: http://law-schools.startclass.com/l/180/Thomas-Jefferson-School-of-Law). After she graduated, Alaburda was offered a job with a law firm that was willing to give her a $60,000 salary, but she turned it down. She said that she received only the one job offer, that was less favorable than non-law-related jobs that were available, even after she sent her resume to more than 150 law firms. Alaburda is asking for $125,000 in damages.
* Boy, the damage that “Legally Blonde” movie has caused!
* “But I sent resumes!” The excuse of the Millennial generation.
* Dean Thomas Guernsey has suggested maybe when she goes for an interview, she should undo the top two or three buttons on her blouse.
* Okay, I withdraw that. It’s inadmissible as hearsay.
* If her debt is $170,000, and she’s asking for $125,000, I can see why she went into law and not, say, mathematics.
* She should have taken the $60,000 law job and then sued her employers for paying her less than a man.
* The school should be commended for producing fewer successful lawyers in this world.
* Well, they can’t blame this one on Trump University.
* See that’s the problem with accusing Trump of misleading students into attending his courses: How’s that any different from the rest of Higher Education?
* Then, if you kiss off your student loans, they send federal marshals to arrest you. True. (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/16/us-marshals-arresting-people-outstanding-federal-s/}
* She can’t claim she didn’t learn anything. At least she learned how to sue the law school.
* Ironically, if she wins this case, it sort of proves they did right by her.
* PHONE TOPIC: “I’m far, far away from what I went to school for.”