With thanks, as often in matters American, to Legal Blog Watch, we are intrigued by Big Debt, Small Law, a website from across the pond whose strapline says it all (well, not quite, but anyway): ‘Dirt Poor Lawyers in a Filthy Rich Town’.
LBW regular Bruce Carton sees Big Debt, Small Law as part of “a good-sized army of young lawyers who have taken to the blogosphere with a common mission: to alert any wannabe lawyers out there to the futility of such a decision.”
We see Big Debt, Small Law as perhaps a little too effusive and embittered for its own good, but in any event soon found ourselves distracted by Bruce’s grammar. Strictly speaking, it is impossible to ascertain either the “common mission” or the “decision”, still less identify what might be futile about the latter. Then we decided we were being a little too pedantic, for clearly Bruce is saying that Big Debt, Small Law is indicative of a growing trend in the blogosphere, one which sees a number of dissatisfied lawyers vent their woes in an attempt to dissuade their putative brethren from continuing in their emulatory efforts. At this stage, however, having unleashed a prolix sentence of undue ponderousness on the world, we concluded that Bruce’s semantic uncertainty may, in fact, have been deliberate, as if to mirror the pros and cons of life as a junior lawyer.
As to which, we can only say that unless you are very, very lucky, all the professions, not just the law, entail long hours and low rewards at the outset of one’s career. The point about weathering this storm is not so much that it’s plain sailing afterwards but that one day you may well own a very nice yacht, while those who bail earlier may, as they idle on their lilos, wish they’d stayed the course.
Pictured: Greta Garbo on her yacht. But was her lawyer behind the camera?
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