Above the Law has flagged a couple of lawyer jobs advertised on Craigslist recently. These positions are like any other lawyer jobs, really: Applicants need to be admitted to the bar, and they would work full-time. In one instance, they would actually be trying cases. In other words, this isn’t really internship stuff. The only difference between these jobs and others? It’s minor, really. Piddling. Insignificant, almost.

They don’t pay.

And in a sign of the times, at least one of these employers is being deluged with applicants. They’re mainly young lawyers who can’t find anything paying and are desperate just to get some experience.

As far as I can tell, there is nothing like this currently being advertised on Craigslist in Maryland, but I do wonder if there are employers here who have tried it — and poor jobless young lawyers who have applied.

Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler might soon be getting a call from Gov. Martin O’Malley, if he hasn’t already received one, seeking a campaign donation.

The governor, in his solicitation, might raise the following points:

• Gansler is running unopposed for re-election; O’Malley is not.

• Gansler has campaign money he need not spend on himself; O’Malley does not.

• Gansler might want to run for governor in four years; O’Malley cannot if he wins re-election this fall against Republican challenger Robert Ehrlich and is term-limited out of office.

• Gansler, if he plans a gubernatorial run, thus has a rooting interest in O’Malley’s victory this fall, as it is easier to win an open seat than one occupied by an incumbent (O’Malley’s win over then-Gov. Ehrlich in 2006 being an exception).

But cheers of “Go, Martin, Go” do not win re-election fights. Money does — and Gansler has plenty to spare.

The attorney general might also want to spread the wealth. Donating to many Democrats in tight races this fall could be an investment that pays dividends for Gansler in 2014 when he might seek gubernatorial-campaign support.

An exasperated Michael McCrary was on the witness stand in Baltimore City Circuit Court for what seemed like the umpteenth time Tuesday afternoon.

As he attempted to answer his attorney’s questions about the various corporate documents and e-mails that prove his business partners defrauded him of millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina-related insurance proceeds, defense counsel objected repeatedly to leading questions. Judge Pierson’s phone rang, leading him to take a brief recess.

When McCrary asked the courtroom clerk if he was allowed to take a break from sitting behind the microphone, she waved him over, said a few words, handed him a bag, and just like that, his mood seemed to lighten.

The clerk, Amy Powell, had speculated during the first days of trial last month that she was the only person in the courthouse who didn’t known who Michael McCrary was. Well, apparently her grandson, 15-year-old Levi Masterson, had heard of the former All-Pro defensive end and was not about to miss the opportunity to meet him.

Masterson, a rising sophomore middle linebacker at Henry E. Lackey High School in Indian Head, made the trip up from Southern Maryland Tuesday with his father.

As Masterson told McCrary about his gridiron accomplishments and dreams, the hulking plaintiff carefully wrote with a black marker on the football Powell had given him.

“To Levi,” McCrary wrote, “Best of Luck. Stay focused!”

“McCrary #99,” he signed it — no smudges — and handed it to the young fan, who had been sitting in the gallery waiting for the chance to shake the big man’s hand.

“Good things happen to those who hustle,” McCrary told him, repeating advice he had heard from a former coach.

Later, after hearing more about operating agreements and LLCs than he probably ever hoped to, Masterson seemed satisfied with his trip up to Baltimore, even if the legal back-and-forth was hard to follow.

“I didn’t know why they were there,” he admitted. (Masterson said he’s taken pre-law classes but is instead hoping to be a software engineer.)

For McCrary, it was a pleasant diversion.

“It’s always a nice opportunity when you have a chance to talk to the 12th man on the football team,” he said, referring to fans.

Asked if a 15-year-old could really remember his playing career, which ended in 2002, McCrary noted that his legacy lives on in video games.

“He’s still playing Madden 2001,” McCrary said. “I’m kicking butt in Madden 2001.”