Geoausch

I’ve spent a lot of time in the theatre with drama queens and I’ve spent a lot of time travling with bands, surrounded by suicide kings. You know the type, the precocious artist with an inflated ego who thinks they are better, because of their art, than those around them. I’ve known a lot of ostentatious people in my life, but I’ve never seen anything like the bravado of the American attorney.

In full disclosure, I’ve spent the past 10 years of my life surrounded by attorneys as well. I’ve worked in almost every capacity in a law firm, except as an attorney, and that could start to change in August if I decide to enroll in law school. My sister and her boyfriend are attorneys as well and it’s through them that I first noticed this phenomenon.  Neither one of them practices law, but both of them feel that their law degree is everything and it places them on a higher level than others around them.  They feel that their J.D. not only qualifies them to wax eloquently about the doctrine of laches, but on anything from Kant to social networking. It’s such bull shit.

At the end of the day, a J.D. is nothing more than vocational training mixed in with basic logic that a Philosophy major would have learned as a Freshman in undergrad. Sure, a J.D. is something to be proud of, but it ranks somewhere below a Ph.D. in the grand scheme of things.

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