It’s obvious that Above The Law is required reading here at Debtor’s Prison.  In fact, I think it’s unfortunate that the blog is dominated primarily by lawyers BECAUSE if say, American Legal work can be outsourced, what can’t? Without further ado here is the link:

First my two cents. The title is fitting because indeed those in the know DID know this would happen…and it’s a classic example of the “scam blogger” effect where even if you utter a highly watered down version of the truth most people not in the know think you’re at best crazy and at worst a cynical, whining, fingerpointing lay about. Is this pathetic? Yes. Would I take this job? Maybe and here is why: shame.  It might be worth poverty wages, stomach parasites, and leaving everything I’ve ever known to look myself in the mirror and know that I am surrounded by individuals who are staring at me for a very different reason.

Read on to hear what the gang thinks

Ha! This is hilarious. Americans with six-figure educations moving to India to have a better life. And to think not ten years ago white people were SUING to get into this school.  Would I go? No. Would I take note and perhaps look for entrepreneurial opportunities in India? Absolutely. But again hilarious, this is a top ten school.

Maybe I’ll get my JD in India or hell at least do a year there. I bet they are better at placing students.  I know Jr. Associates will be pissed at my firm if our contractors are outsourced, not only because it means they are next but because they LOVE yelling at some poor shmuck 15 years their senior over some perceived error.

Look assheads. There are people with Harvard degrees working at Mickey Dees. There are Yalees strung out on drugs. There are Princeton Tigers collecting unemployment. Am I blown away that some lowly Wolverines might have to work in India?  Um, not really.  It was poor judgment to allow such a job posting on campus but that’s all it is…Michigan needs to realize that it is PERCEPTION not RANKING that effects the worth of your degree. Don’t sacrifice the former for a small fraction of the latter. The real loser here is Michigan. As for me I am 100% American and you couldn’t DRAG ME away.

Being a resident sucks. This also counts as a post. Second, am I the only one who thinks it’s a little presumptuous to assume that just because a job is in India that it’s awful? I hate using the phrase “My Indian Friends” so I won’t because you don’t have to be Indian to see the fact that a job posting with no stated salary in a market where everyone and especially young lawyers are out on their ass might be good or it might be bad and if you are emphatically claiming one or the other you’re reading something into it- a pre conceived notion as it were. Now I’m not claiming to be in the know as far as legal is concerned just like I wouldn’t expect a lawyer to know how lucrative dermatology is…but come on.

That’s right I participate in roundtables now. What do I think of as an incoming law student going to an inferior school that costs about the same? I’m elated, tickled, yet not surprised. To add to my colleagues comments: I agree with Alpha Man this is hilarious, I also agree with Mike Triforce that this obviously happens and to that I add- just as every good school has it’s epic failures so does every crappy school have it’s runaway successes. And that will be me. When I am rolling in dough with my TTT diploma I can’t wait to sponsor a former American’s Visa to come back to the states and scrub my toilet, the highest paying job he can get 15 years out of Michigan. And I don’t care what the law says he ain’t getting healthcare.

Give me your energetic, your wealthy
Your flamboyant shooting stars for sale
Send me your multiple homeowning overclass
I lift my lamp beside my gold-plated door…

And I will deport my own poor bastards to make room