Greedy Links: A Little Bit More of the Usual

This week's Greedy Links has the usual career advice of questionable utility; the standard article to induce panic in employment-deprived law students; and, inevitably, one teeny-tiny rankings-related link.  Also, the "greedy" label is applied to an actual attorney by a real court, and we all come to an understanding that there will be no math.

• Over at Indiana University, they have role-played the law firm of the future.  You can probably stop reading after "new associates would be paid less" and "there'd be fewer of them." (Am Law Daily)
• Partners behaving badly: FindLaw's Blotter sums up the story of the BigLaw partner who booted her kids from the car.
• Corporate associates take note: the ABA Journal reports that Wilson Sonsini is replacing you with a web-based term-sheet generator.
• Above the Law's Notes from the Breadline has a dose of the relentless optimism of lawyer-turned-career-development guru Ari Kaplan.
• The Complete Lawyer gets all Zen on work-life balance.
• The NYT describes the legal career path you wish you'd chosen: Pirate Defense!

• Simple rule for lawyers: when the district court actually calls you "greedy," the story is going into Greedy Links. (ABA Journal)
• We promised we were done ever mentioning law school rankings again, but come on, we have to link to U.S. News now that they're officially out.  And yes, the leaked rankings were accurate.
• An expert in an NYT piece suggests that undergrads should limit their total student-loan borrowing to one year's expected salary; Concurring Opinions wonders whether this rule holds for law school debt as well.  If so, one blogger, who shall remain nameless, is relieved to know that he only overshot the mark by about 100%.  Close enough.
• This Courtoon reminds me of the first day of Income Tax as a 3L:

Prof, working an example on the board: "What would be 28% of $100,000?"
Class, in unison: [Gasps for air].