Comments on: ABA Proposes Law Student Loan Relief

By: bright&shiny

bright&shiny — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:01:14 +0000

I agree with the first commenter. The ABA only cares about big-law.

And to “Law talking guy”: you should realize that when big-law sends their deferred candidates to work in non-profits for a year it impacts those of us who were prepared to carry debt in order to do things that we were interested in, despite the low salaries. I would hope that you also decry bailing out Goldman and AIG and people in foreclosure, too.

By: D. Cleland

D. Cleland — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:14:47 +0000

What is a new graduate? I graduated in 2006, do I count? They had better try to do this thing across the board for all of us. I would be nice if the ABA would work for students a little more and less on fighting tort reform!

By: Law talkin guy

Law talkin guy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:51:00 +0000

So you want to now socialize the risk of someone who borrowed too much money to go to a sub-optimal law school and have the US taxpayer bail him and the sheisters in the private loan industry who lent him the money out?

SHAME

By: Laid-Off Lawyer

Laid-Off Lawyer — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:10:19 +0000

I’d much rather pay off my law student loans before having them deferred or rolled over into federally-backed loans. But it’s a bit of a brave new world out there.

Take a look at my finances. http://laidofflawyer.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/fourth-day-of-accounting/ Not sure where the money’s supposed to come from to pay them. My mother’s helping now because she’s wants to but also, I suspect, because she’s a co-signor on one of them. Kinda crazy that mom’s paying my student loans, eh?

By: Edward Smith

Edward Smith — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:14:39 +0000

Now they want to do this……we’ve been suffering for 10 yrs—through 9/11 fallout of no jobs—and they want to do this NOW??? Oh wait, of course….ONLY for new graduates. Am I the only person who thinks the ABA is worthless?