"Thomas Jefferson’s lawyers will argue that Ms. Alaburda never incurred any actual injury, because she was offered — and turned down — a law firm job with a $60,000 salary shortly after she graduated."
^^^This^^^ = Entitlement.
What the hell did you expect to start out at? I've often said sarcastically to people when they ask me about going into the law, "Oh it was easy. When you go to the swearing-in ceremony, they hand you a check for $250K to help get you started."
I'm guessing the entire time she was in law school, she never interviewed, put out feelers or looked into starting her own practice. I knew who I was going with the minute I passed the Bar. It wasn't long after I was working there that a partner in the firm had a falling out with the other and left. We talked and decided to rent space, take out a loan and hang out a shingle. We weren't even in the phone book at the time. You do what you gotta' do.