How badly do you regret having gone to law school ?

[Anonymous]

Not even BVA or SSA appeals? They're sweatshops, sure but can open doors.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t regret it at all. I think I’m a natural-born litigator. I can’t imagine ever not litigating. It’s truly my calling.

My son-in-law could have written this. He loves his job. He’s a partner too.

LOL. Goodie for him! And he's a partner too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not even BVA or SSA appeals? They're sweatshops, sure but can open doors.

DRG has already turned down BVA as unsatisfactory.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I regret it, absolutely. I took out about $200k in loans at 8% interest and graduated right into the recession. I had to work for the sheistiest personal injury firms and compete against T14 grads also doing what they could to stay out of doc review. My last day as a lawyer was spent in a screaming match with the firm owner over settling a case of a tomato can "slip and fall" for only $20k. He ended the argument by telling me the GS 9 non-attorney fed gov job I managed to land was less than one year's tuition at my crap law school. As soon as I get PSLF I will consider letting my license expire.

I can’t even get interviews for gs7 contract specialist jobs. Let alone any federal attorney job. I spent $140k on law school loans .

Didn’t you get an offer at BVA but turned it down? And it’s not worse than doc review.

unpaid OT is worse than doc review. Being fired and made unsuitable for other federal employment is worse than doc review

Unpaid overtime = "being a professional"

Yea, wow. Professionals aren't paid overtime. They're classified as "exempt employees" for overtime purposes. You're not working in the mailroom or the cafeteria. You're a professional employee. If you're being paid OT as a document reviewer, that says right there that the firm considers you to be nothing but support staff.

People like you are why the profession in so miserable

I'm not in the profession. These are just the facts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not even BVA or SSA appeals? They're sweatshops, sure but can open doors.

SSA isn’t even hiring as people are currently scamming unemployment instead

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you enjoy being a lawyer, I mean really enjoy it, then you probably have a personality disorder . Possibly a sociopath too

You know thr vast majority of lawyers aren't personal injury lawyers or whatever you think it is we do that makes us sociopaths. I'm in public interest and I help people navigate systems and anticipate problems they might have and solutions for those problems. I get personally thanked multiple times a week. It’s a great job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not even BVA or SSA appeals? They're sweatshops, sure but can open doors.

DRG has already turned down BVA as unsatisfactory.

Sounds wise

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not even BVA or SSA appeals? They're sweatshops, sure but can open doors.

DRG has already turned down BVA as unsatisfactory.

Sounds wise

Fair enough. Since none of the one or two dozen conversations started here have ever helped him one iota, I'm not sure starting up the 25th will help, but I'm sure he knows what is best for him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not even BVA or SSA appeals? They're sweatshops, sure but can open doors.

DRG has already turned down BVA as unsatisfactory.

Sounds wise

You've got to work with the hand you are dealt (and your grades). If you don't play ball, you're not going to get anywhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not even BVA or SSA appeals? They're sweatshops, sure but can open doors.

DRG has already turned down BVA as unsatisfactory.

Sounds wise

You've got to work with the hand you are dealt (and your grades). If you don't play ball, you're not going to get anywhere.

Your livelihood is in the hands of a judge who can make your life hell all due to arbitrary standards.

I know people who seriously considered that job, they have young kids and I sent them links to the surveys and descriptions of the job and they thanked me for preventing them from making a horrible decision that could have destroyed their ability to raise kids due to the harm
That happens to you of you are fired or asked to resign

[Anonymous]

People who work at BVA are viewed as lepers by people at other fed agencies . It provides bo advantages in getting other fed jobs other than at SSA or DHHS and those pay less.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t regret it at all. I think I’m a natural-born litigator. I can’t imagine ever not litigating. It’s truly my calling.

My son-in-law could have written this. He loves his job. He’s a partner too.

LOL. Goodie for him! And he's a partner too!

It is a great life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not even BVA or SSA appeals? They're sweatshops, sure but can open doors.

BVA opens the door to SSA, but SSA isn't currently hiring due to a significant decrease in disability claims.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not even BVA or SSA appeals? They're sweatshops, sure but can open doors.

BVA opens the door to SSA, but SSA isn't currently hiring due to a significant decrease in disability claims.

and people leave the SSA for BVA to get to gs14

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you enjoy being a lawyer, I mean really enjoy it, then you probably have a personality disorder . Possibly a sociopath too

You know thr vast majority of lawyers aren't personal injury lawyers or whatever you think it is we do that makes us sociopaths. I'm in public interest and I help people navigate systems and anticipate problems they might have and solutions for those problems. I get personally thanked multiple times a week. It’s a great job.

I help people build buildings. Including affordable housing. It takes a lot of legal work (as well as design, engineeeing, construction work too, of course) to build a building. What's sociopathic about any of that?