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Originally Posted by Bonnevie
I would argue that NFL players are motivated by the money. Sure they may love the game, but it wreaks havoc on their health.
I actually spent 3 days in law school before I realized it wasn't for me. The first day, the teacher came in and wrote on the board 1/3. He said that is the amount the lawyer gets in a law suit. I believe that was the first thing he told the class.
I believe there are good lawyers out there...the ones that take pro bono cases and those that work for legal aid. But huge law firms such as the one in this lawsuit are financially motivated.
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I spent ten days at BYU Law School in 1982. Was there on a Merit Scholarship for non-Mormons. Dropped out. Then went to get speech training at the University of Nevada, Reno. And journeyed to the University of Denver to get a MA in Librarianship and Information Management in May of 1984. Eventually went back to law school at the U of MN (Class of 1989) to become a law librarian and fight for more practical materials in libraries for victims/survivors of crimes of all kinds. A struggle I have had to do since mid 1991 from outside of law librarianship looking in after the powers that be blacklisted me. Mainly so that the money could keep coming into these big law firms who have control of the conversation along with the conservatism of the legal profession. I had to enlist everyone I could think of to change that conversation by bringing in people from many disciplines and many walks of life. Movie stars, writers, comedians, singers, celebrities, scholars, social workers, psychiatrists, CEOs, victim/witness assistance providers, police, etc. My main motivation in this was to help survivors/victms of crimes due to a long history of personal experiences with victims/survivors of crimes. I have communicated with a lot of lawyers since 1991 about this work and with some who have been real a-holes about this; many have not. For instance, some of my fellow Law Student Class of 1989 members have not been all that friendly. And some incredibly creative hurdles have been thrown up against me over the past almost 26 years.