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

Didn’t you get an offer at BVA but turned it down? And it’s not worse than doc review.[/quote] unpaid OT is worse than doc review. Being fired and made unsuitable for other federal employment is worse than doc review [/quote]

Unpaid overtime = "being a professional"[/quote]

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.[/quote]

People like you are why the profession in so miserable [/quote]

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