FIRST!!

thank god you are back, lat

Do you steal all your content from the wsj blog or just some of it?

Most schools have been doing this for years. I'm glad Harvard finally caught up.

Go fuck yourselves, HLS rich kids. I've got too much debt to be giving money away. Ask my law school to donate 1 day's pay of the 10,000 associate deans they employ for no reason.

Why don't big firms cancel one pointless, ungodly expensive event from their summer schedules and give that saved money to charity? Let the summer associates who will make $30,000 over three years (while incurring $150,000 in debt) keep their money without feeling guilty about it.

Anonymous at 10:07:

You know, you could just not donate money. You don't have to go online and anonymously insult people who are trying to do charity work. If this isn't your thing, that's fine, but what's the point of attacking people who are trying to help others?

10:01, there is some overlap between the two blogs, but sometimes ATL posts on the subject before the WSJ Law Blog. Do you go over there and ask them why they steal their content from ATL?

10:27 -- I'm anonymously insulting people who are trying to add a line to their already bloated resumes.

Seriously. Most other schools already do this.

Harvard has been doing this for years.

And 10:27 - if people want to give to charity, they don't have to create a website and proclaim to the world they're doing it to draw attention and praise to themselves.

Anonymous at 10:36 - What's on your resume? "I pissed on everything in my life that moved."

10:27/10:50 seems to have forgotten that law school was all about generating as many bullshit activities as possible to make yourself look like a well rounded, caring law student. This is just more of the same.

Feed the homeless to the hungry.

Harvard has done this for a long time. I gave money for this purpose back in the 90s when I was a student.

10:18 - my thoughts, exactly. I'm not knocking giving to charity, but there is a thread of judgment running through this particular campaign. The language suggests that students making $30K over the course of three non-earning years should somehow think nothing of giving "just" a day's worth of pay to charity.

Loyola 2L has some hilarious comments in the WSJ blog version of this story.

wait--do people really put "gave money to a charity drive" on their resumes? i mean, i guess if you volunteered at a soup kitchen that would go on there, but just gave money? that would look pretty silly. maybe it's me, but i seriously doubt anyone giving to this will do it because it's going to look good on a resume

10:58 - Find yourself overmatched in law school, did you?

frankly, giving to charity just one's day salary seems pretty cheap to me. i've always given at least 5% of my post-tax income to charity--both before, during and well after law school--and many others, particularly folks who tithe, give away substantially more.

ultimately, it is a personal decision--and except in this anonymous forum (and on my tax returns), I never broadcast how much or to whom I am contributing. Nonetheless, I can say that you will never miss the money. As long as you make the decision in advance, and plan accordingly, you will never feel any financial pain from giving it away. And, yes, I funded my entire law school on debt, so I understand that there are expenses--but this really doesn't affect your lifestyle in any real way.

12:29,

Top 10% from t10 school. So no. I always felt my GPA should do the talking, not a bunch of cutesy activities. And that's worked just fine for me so far.

12:40:

You're wrong. We've collectively decided that not only do we not need to give to charity, but we must verbally abuse those who would choose to give to charity and those who would start charities.

Now I must be go to write a strongly worded letter to my local orphanage castigating them for making the world an awful place so that they can write about saving children on their resumes.

First, a lot of law schools have been doing this for a long time. At my law school, you could donate a day of summer associate salary to fund the paltry public interest law stipends for your peers who worked in non-law firm jobs.

Second, I agree that starting a webpage like this -- if as other posters say, Harvard has already been doing a one day program for many years now -- smacks of the founders attempting to gain prestige for themselves.

Third and finally, now that I am out in the working force, I DO give money to charity. But I'm certainly not going to go on some webpage so I can self-aggrandizingly proclaim my donations for all to see. Seems more charitable to donate, and not do so in a forum or manner by which I expect to receive public recognition or accolades.

12:46 - Right, and if that's not good enough you'll make it top 5% from a top 5 law school. Casual empiricism is a wonderful thing. Hope you didn't put those numbers on your resume, but then solo practitioners usually don't have HR departments to check.

It's interesting you would think "overmatched" inevitably meant in motor skill. It could mean socially.

10:07 -- "Go fuck yourselves, HLS rich kids"

Don't you think I haven't tried?

many of you make me sick. where does it say you have to give? rather than trash this program on this post, go out and do something. if you're such a philanthropist and a humanitarian, go write that check to united way and shut your mouth. I know a few of the people behind this venture and they've been doing things like since they were in high school. grow up, lose the jealousy and maybe in 10 years, you'll be half as successful as these "HLS rich kids". honestly, the level of unwarranted criticism and envy on this message board is off the charts. you should all take a long look in the mirror and wonder why you feel the need to write these things. it's a great program - it never says they're the first, just that they're doing something beneficial to society. how many of you can claim you did anything of that nature today? seriously, get over it and move on. done and done.