Getting Shafted.

I learned today about some of the economic woes in the legal world. Several of the big firms around the country have revoked clerkship offers and instead proposed to pay their 2L clerks $5,000 NOT TO WORK this summer. There must have been some misunderstanding, because these big firms also told me that I could not work for them this summer.

But no one offered me $5,000.

Clearly there has been some sort of mistake.