Law school bubble about to burst?

[FloriTexan]

7. It is not the career a lot expect when they are hired

A lot of law firms, especially the larger ones, wine and dine, throw parties for them, fawn all over them, provide happy hours, etc. while they are summer-clerking/interning. Then when they hire them the parties and happy hours pretty much come to a grinding halt. As "summer associates" they pay them more than their secretaries make in a year (after 25 years of service).

Once they are hired in, they find themself at the bottom of the food chain working all hours of the night and weekends. They all expect to make partner in 4-5 years and that is coming to a halt too. Like it was said above, there are just too many lawyers now and they can't all become partners.

So 4-5 years in and many sleepless nights later they don't make partner and grumpily transition to somewhere else, hopefully to some cozy in-house counsel position where they can farm all the hard work and long nights out to their old employers who are their new employers' outside counsels.

All the while complaining about how little money they make. As a legal secretary, I've seen this happen over and over and over again.