December 11, 2011
New Lawyers Hang a Shingle on Shpoonkle, to Some Colleagues' Chagrin
Yunghi Kim for The Chronicle
"Just because a lawyer can afford to buy a $10,000 billboard on the highway doesn't make him a better lawyer," says Robert Grant Niznik, founder of Shpoonkle, who is about to graduate from New York Law School.
Robert Grant Niznik had commiserated with other third-year law students about the lousy job market and was wondering what he was going to do after finishing his courses at New York Law School this month.
At the same time, he'd read about middle-class people who didn't qualify for Legal Aid services but couldn't afford high-priced attorneys.
So, in between going to classes and studying for exams, he came up with the idea of a matchmaking Web site where recent law graduates
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