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WhyThreeBulletPointsOnAPieceOfPaperAndSilenceMayNotWork 3 - 11 Mar 2010 - Main.DevinMcDougall
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 So by now, many of you have probably heard of Mr. Chuck. Mr. Chuck is a 3L at NYU Law School. He has been referred to as “Rosencrantz” on Abovethelaw.com. Mr. Chuck was also supposed to be working and as far as I know, still is working at Mayer Brown as a first year associate upon graduation whenever the deferral period is over.

I have met Mr. Chuck. He’s a nice guy. We’re facebook friends. We have mutual friends. But his story represents why a lot of us probably don’t try to organize and protest the status quo. For the full story, go here: http://abovethelaw.com/2010/03/mutiny_at_mayer_brown.php. For the follow-up and some youtube videos made my Mr. Chuck titled – “Overeducated and Unemployed: Waking Up from the American Dream during a Recession”, go here: http://abovethelaw.com/2010/03/nyu_3l_takes_unemployment_plig.php.

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 The status quo is easy. After all, "They are not near my conscience; their defeat does by their own insinuation grow". Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. Not many more are willing to end up like them.
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>		Aside from the various miscalculations, I think one lesson learned is that organizing works best person to person. Email blasts and leafletting are often not effective at connecting to people, and are easy to take out of context and become blog post fodder. I think Mr. Chuck would have done better if he got together with a lot more than one colleague, and spent time, in person, figuring out a plan everyone was committed to.
 
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