Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
In 2012, the heads of big Minneapolis law firms wrote a letter in the Star Tribune against The Marriage Amendment, warning they wouldn’t be able to recruit the best and brightest lawyers if it passed.
So how’s that been working out for them? What statistics are kept on gay Minneapolis lawyers to see if they were right, or if they were lying?
Joe Doakes
People still think it was about achieving empirical results?
Bringing more lawyers to town was an argument against the marriage amendment?
Even though it’s only Tuesday, I feel safe in saying that Powhatan Mingo has won the Internet this week.
Despite being conflicted about the marriage amendment when it was on the ballot (too complicated for here), I decided then to boycott General Mills when their CEO said something similar. I decided that there were too many other cereal companies that I had no reason to support a CEO that was jumping into an honest disagreement with absolute crap of reasoning.
Perhaps, instead of offering endless, State-approved sodomy, the big law firms could have offered the gay lawyers season passes to Valley Fair or the Minnesota Zoo?
I’m thinking that it’s not hiring, but rather key clients made it clear that contracts would disappear unless they took the “proper” stand. With what is said to be the current glut of lawyers, it’s highly unlikely that ignoring the 2-3% that might possibly benefit from same sex mirage is going to make or break their employee recruitment.
I can’t keep up with what’s been going on
I think my heart must just be slowing down
Among the human beings, in their designer jeans,
Am I the only one who hears the screams
And the strangled cries of lawyers in love?
Completely anecdotal – the hygienist at my dentist told me her son who finished law school this past spring and passed both the WI and MN bar exams has yet to find a job. She claims that he finished top of his class and not only has he not found work, he isn’t even getting interviews in this region. He’s now looking in NC and TX.
PS: Don’t know his sexual preference, FWIW.
Seflores, the traditional foundation of a law degree is a humanity degree. You wonder what all these grievance-studies people are going to do to make a living? A lot of them will go to law school and become lawyers.
I know one person who got a BS physics (from Berkeley), and eventually went on to law school. This person told me that after physics, law school was a piece of cake.
I guess what I am saying is that a lot of people who go to law school don’t have a back up plan if their career in law doesn’t take off.
On the other hand, I’ve heard that small, traditional law practice in non-metropolitan areas is still a good field to get in to.
PM – Accorde`. I have two siblings that are partners in large law firms. They are advising their children and their children’s friends against going to law school. So much of the work young lawyers used to do in large firms has been automated and the associate jobs have gone the way of the rotary dial telephone. There is still a need, as you note, for the small office sole practitioners that do the wills, real estate and other low paying fixed fee stuff though. My brother is planning to retire in the next few years, moving to a small town in the West and hanging out his shingle between pestering fish in the area streams.