That's because a bunch of new grads looked at their job prospects in 2008 and decided they should stay in school studying something like law. Someone with several years of experience more than that cohort should do well as long as there's a skill discrepancy between the cohorts.

Yes, exactly. Well, legal as a career started to go south maybe a few years before that.

Aside from making me feel tragically old (I'd been working professionally for years at that point), it was just interesting to hear someone recount a totally different view of the cataclysm.