Weve started a new feature on our FB page that looks back at the week that was in Florida Bar social media. To do this, well count down the Top 5 stories (most clicks, shares, likes, etc ..) of the week. And now, #3: Morning Legal Links POSTED, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1: Morning Legal Links ... Amid speed-trap and ticket-quota probe, tiny Florida town Waldo disbands its police department ... A Gilligans Island movie was on track to be made in 2013 -- until the man who claims he came up with the idea and script in 1999 decided to sue ... Forbes has an ROI test to determine if grad school debt was worth it in comparison to what lawyers will earn during their careers -- and many law students flunked Waldo has long carried the notoriety as a speed trap with black and white patrol cars working busy stretches of U.S. 301 and State Road 24, but that began to change last month when its last police chief, Mike Szabo, was suspended pending the results of a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation. On Tuesday, the Waldo City Council voted 4-1 in favor of disbanding its department, effective immediately: bit.ly/ZrOu4L A Georgia man by the name of Travis P. Dunson says he spent a lot of time in the late 1990s authoring a Gilligans Island movie script which was shopped around Hollywood but ultimately never reached the silver screen, despite his claims he was told by one Warner Bros. executive they loved it. Fast forward 14 years later to 2013 when Warner Bros. announced it was producing a Gilligans Island film -- and to Dunsons dismay, theirs was eerily similar to his. Or at least thats what he claims in a lawsuit filed against the movie giant: bit.ly/1rGdmPx In this two-part, in-depth story from Forbes, a woman identified as Lisa K. takes the magazines ROI -- or Return on Investment -- test when comparing her law school debt to how much shes likely to earn during her entire legal career The 39-year-old woman racked up more than $300,000 in student debt and is now working as a solo in a small Minnesota town where she earns about $20,000 a year. Furthermore, Forbes reports, even if Lisa had obtained a job in BigLaw she would have flunked the magazines seven-step test for calculating the return on educational investment. According to the formula, the cost of education is too high if total undergraduate and grad school debt are higher than the projected first-year salary out of grad school: Part 1 -- onforb.es/1uBApyB; Part 2 -- onforb.es/1vxwxh4
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 23:10:01 +0000
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