"The trial courts received $583.7 million from the Legislature in the current fiscal year"
For what?
This?
"Law firms may provide clerks for courts; Proposal raises ethical issues" by Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | June 22, 2009
Many large firms around the country are paying such “deferred associates’’ stipends of about $60,000, less than half their regular starting salaries of about $150,000, to hold onto them until the economy improves.
IF, that is! You guys like the word so much.
Some firms are recommending that the young lawyers volunteer at nonprofits or engage in public service.
This generation is getting SO SCREWED, what with the TRILLIONS in BANK BAILOUTS and WAR SPENDING!
But some legal specialists say an arrangement that involves a law firm paying a judicial employee raises thorny ethical questions. Firms that donate lawyers to the courts might appear to be currying favor or expect preferential treatment....
Like the COURTS are not ALREADY PREJUDICED to CLASS and CERTAIN OTHER RELIGIOUS and ETHNIC QUALITIES -- as we torture innocents in our black site prisons and floating dungeons.
NO "change."
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