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You graduated. Then you tackled (or are tackling) the bar. After a few months of spinning your wheels, you even found a job. Now, your transmission is going out and you suddenly find yourself in an unfamiliar place, with the desire, and more importantly, the means to get a new(ish) car.

That's right. No more disposable $200 Nissan Pulsars (it was a rough time in my life).

Here are your top choices, based on a completely arbitrary set of criteria. These are all used, under $35,000, and the twin considerations of luxury and performance are key. Prestige is also. After all, Pulsars won't fit in at the firm, right?

I was skimming my second-favorite law blog this morning, and ran across an interesting post by Elie Mystal on Upstart.com, a crowdfunding site where "Upstarts" sell their soul pledge a percentage of their income for the next ten years in exchange for present-day funding. The gist is "give me money now, and if I don't fail at life, I'll give you a percentage of my income, per my tax filings, for the next ten years."

It's a nice concept, and could pay off if you back a winner. Plus, who needs student loan debt relief more than lawyers?

It’s a much-lamented fact of life that student loan debt is basically non-dischargeable. Can’t pay your credit card debts? File bankruptcy. Can’t handle hospital bills? File bankruptcy.

Can’t pay your student loans? Move to Djibouti.

For one lucky law grad, however, he’ll be slightly closer to debt-free, despite three failed attempts at the bar, a single-income household, and the Ninth Circuit’s affirmation of a lower court’s holding that even if he were to pass the bar, he probably wouldn’t make much more than he does now.

Much respect to Senator Elizabeth Warren, the first-term Congresswoman who beat incumbent Republican Scott Brown for one of Massachusetts’ seats in the Senate. According to the Los Angeles Times, a big reason for her victory was her embrace of the Occupy Wall Street movement and criticism of big banks.

And with her first bill, she may have just won a few more votes.

The Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act, which has a snowball’s chance in hell of passing, would set student loan interest rates (for one year only) at the same rate that banks get when they borrow money from the federal government: 0.75 percent. The interest rate on federal student loans is currently set to double to 6.8 percent this summer.

The Care Bears used to say “It’s never too late if you care enough.” This week, Justice Donald Alexander of Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court offered a similar sentiment regarding F. Lee Bailey’s chances of getting his law license back, the ABA Journal reports.

All Bailey needs is a good ol’ fashioned Care Bear stare … and $2 million dollars.

Lets all say it together: "We are screwed!"

Tuition.io, while an incredibly useful student loan management tool, is also incredibly depressing. The magic site pulls in all of your student loans, public and private, and tells you how much you owe, how much interest you've paid, and how much you will pay by the time you die of exhaustion in 2030.

It breaks down your balances, illustrates your interest accrued over the principal in a red bar graph, estimates your monthly payments, and has a calendar that tells you when payments are due. It even has a cute little slider that tells you how much you'll save if you can somehow manage to dump additional funds into your monthly payments.

The only thing it doesn't do is pay the loans for you.

You finish law school. You pass the bar. Suddenly, you need a job.

Your problem: The offer that comes in is $10,000 less than what you need to pay student loans, rent, and eat. Fear not: That's just a jumping off point to start salary (or any other) negotiations.

It's March. Many of you have landed a summer associate gig, clerkship, or internship with a small firm. The rest of you will soon (we hope). That means you're going to need to start preparing your wardrobe. After all, those ironic anti-lawyer t-shirts that read "Dewey Cheatem & Howe" and "Jack Schitt, Esq." aren't going to fly at most firms. It's time to step your game up - either to business casual or if you're really lucky, the BigLaw ballin' barrister look.

Now, you might be confused as to what business casual entails. We've got your back on that.

As for suits, there are a few things to keep in mind. First, don't buy online. You can't check fit online, and suits vary greatly from brand to brand. When you do check the fit, the jacket is by far the most important piece. Your shoulders should fit, with a bit of room to move, and not look like you are wearing linebacker pads. Also, you'll need to button the jacket without it looking like it's going to pop.

One might expect that partner compensation would decline in the present economy. After all, the legal industry hasn't exactly been thriving since 2009 or so. Industry-leading firms were shuttered, partners and associates were sent to the soup kitchens, and the legal lifestyle has been more madness than Mad Men.

And yet -- unless you are a woman, black, or a litigator -- your compensation likely went up between 2010 and 2012, according to a survey done by Major, Lindsey & Africa.

When you sign off on student loan documentation, lenders make it very clear that bankruptcy will not discharge your law school debt. But that doesn't stop law students who are being crushed by debts from trying anyway.

Case in point: Michael Hedlund, who has been on a journey to decrease his law school debt for the past nine years. Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken overturned his partial victory from a lower court.

Hedlund is now appealing Aiken's decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. While Aiken ruled against him, her opinion reads partly in his favor.