[blindlaw] blind attorneys

[mfhurley at optonline.net]

Prospects for blind lawyers were not good in a great ecomony.  I agree with Dennis' post wholeheartedly. 

----- Original Message -----
From: David Andrews 
Date: Friday, November 19, 2010 5:26 am
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] blind attorneys
To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List 

> James:
> 
> I would like to suggest that the unemployment rate for blind 
> persons 
> in most all, if not all fields of endeavor is low. While my 
> evidence 
> is anecdotal, I don't think that it is necessarily any worse for 
> blind lawyers. Over the years I have known a bunch of blind 
> lawyers, 
> who are working.
> 
> From what I read, the prospect for all lawyers isn't that good 
> right 
> now, so it is hard to separate the blindness penalty from the 
> bad 
> economy penalty.
> 
> Dave
> 
> At 05:55 PM 11/18/2010, you wrote:
> >Based upon my experience, Berkeley grad, top tier law grad, 
> ZERO job offers
> >despite NEVER not getting an interview, combined with the 
> extremely low
> >numbers of blind attorneys I can't think of what there might be 
> to discuss.
> >My advice to anyone with vision issues considering law as a 
> career is to not
> >waste their time or money they have a greater chance statistically,
> >probably, of getting hit by lightening on the way to law class 
> than ever
> >getting an offer of employment. Now if you come from money, forget
> >everything I have said and just open your own firm! THAT IS 
> THE WAY IT IS!
> >But there are always EXCEPTIONS. I personally wouldn't want to 
> invest the
> >time and money law school requires on the hopes I'll be an exception.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> blindlaw mailing list
> blindlaw at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindlaw_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account 
> info for blindlaw:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blindlaw_nfbnet.org/mfhurley%40optonline.net
> 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: mfhurley.vcf
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 101 bytes
Desc: Card for <mfhurley at optonline.net>
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/blindlaw_nfbnet.org/attachments/20101119/d0c59321/attachment.vcf>