Jamie Spencer at AustinDefense is on the hunt for the Top Criminal Defense Blogs out there. If you’re an avid legal blog reader, particularly blogs on criminal law and defense and would like to chime in with your favourites, send Jamie an e-mail and let him know.
Jamie can be reached at jamie -AT- austindefense.com
I have to say that between reading Mark Bennett’s blog and some of Jamie’s posts, I’ve given quite a few thoughts these past few days about a possible career in criminal defense. With the death of habeas corpus and dubious imprisonment happening far too often these days criminal law seem remarkably appealing. I wonder if they’ll forgive my criminal Criminal law grade. It’s not that bad really, it’s just not the alpha grade I really wanted.
May 23, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Shannon,
The good news is that the number of defenders who care about your Criminal Law grade is essentially zero.
The bad news is that this is at least partly because they’re not hiring — most defenders (at least here in Texas) are sole practitioners.
The good news is that the criminal defense community (at least here in Houston) is very supportive of new lawyers trying to start practices.
The bad news is that there’s no regular paycheck.
The good news is that there’s no boss either.
The bad news is that you’ll probably have a boatload of student loan debt.
The good news is that student loan payments can be deferred.
Mark.