Friday, January 21, 2011

Luxury Goods Drive Xmas

Lawyers are definitely paid well when you get your practice running (even if you work in a good firm you're hopefully making good coin.) (I should note I am admittedly ignoring the vast number of lawyers who don't work for the big bucks, but less consider you an anomaly for a moment.)

But I don't generally see lawyers driving around in a selection of Bentley's and Rolls Royce's.

Call me poor, but I thought we were tightening the purse strings in this recession. Turns out The recession only applies to almost all of us, but not all...... Accusations of wealth being siphoned from the majority of Americans (98%) and funneled to the pockets of the exceptionally wealthy will pick up as Christmas sales come in. Overal luxury good sales were way way up. Somebody had cash to spend, and they decided to opt for lavish goods over knock off Gucci.

I gotta figure out how to get in on this racket.

Friday, January 14, 2011

iPhone Finally

Get your iPhone 4 from Verizon! ATT has long had a monopoly on all iPhone sales in the US (unless you wanted to shell out big bucks to get the device unlocked).

Apart from techno geeks the majority of us didn't really want to spend the 800+ bucks for an unlocked phone.

At least now we have some competition as Verizon will soon offer the iPhone 4. Maybe even prices will start going down for the devices.... ATT can also take their millions and run, finally we have competition.....

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The State of our Union

What were your thoughts on the State of the Union Address?

A bunch of talk? Empty rhetoric?

I can say I felt the speech demonstrated a President who inherited a terrible situation. Wars, economy, and declining everything.

It took Bush 8 years to mess it up, and it will take more than 2 years for Obama to fix it.

Let's hope he actually pushes through the major elements he promised, being: economy, health..... yea that about sums it up.

Exams Galore

Why the LSAT? in the UK all they have to do is take some more school.....

Yes here it's exams galore. What a racket to get into if you can swing it. Make all students take exam upon exam.

I know someone who in fact came from the UK after succesfully completing law school. He has to take FIVE exams to cross over, plus all of his bar work, plus articling again.

I suppose that's not so bad since you're changing countries, but seriously, FIVE exams to prove you understand the system? Seems a tad much (the change was from UK to Canada so they're a bit closer than UK to US).