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The Best Kept Secret in The Law: How to Get Paid to Live on a Tropical Island

I’m going to let you in on a little secret: an exotic, profound, life changing opportunity exists to newly minted grads and experienced professionals alike. Your guidance counselor does not know about it, your local job board will never post it, and your senior partner will never tell you about it. It does not require passing another bar exam, but it does require that you bring an adventurous spirit, your swimsuit and your sunscreen. It will quite literally teach you both the practice of law and the secret to life, and, I promise, will change every perception you have ever had about the world you live in. There is little competition for positions, and the benefit package is quite attractive. Oh, and send the tasseled loaf ers and expensive suits to storage, because here the court decorum is flipflops and Hawaiian shirts, even for the judges. It is working as an Assistant Attorney General for a United States insular area, and I’m going to teach you how.

I.PSST
II.THE MEAT MARKET
III.LIVING“THELIFE” ISLAND STYLE: AMERICAN SAMOA
A. The Lifestyle
B. The Culture
C. Employment
IV. THE UNITED STATES INSULAR AREAS
A. To Organize or Unorganize, that is the Question
B. Going Corporate
C. The Freely Associated NationStates
D. The Commonwealths
E. The Territories
V. FORTUNE FAVORS THE BOLD

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The Best Kept Secret in The Law: How to Get Paid to Live on a Tropical Island