She then worked as an administrative assistant throughout her undergraduate degree, before
going to law school in 2013.
We're left with qualitative data, and there are countless anecdotes of people who
went to law school for one reason but practice in an entirely different area due to economic considerations.
Anyone
who went to law school knows that, while it's great for teaching legal theory and analytical skills, it doesn't exactly prepare you for the real world.
And that brings me to a final argument in favour
of going to law school: We need more good people to be lawyers.
I got hooked on being an advocate in an adversarial setting and decided right there and then I was
going to law school so that I could make a living by going to court.
Everyone that
goes to law school knows that law school does very little in terms of preparing you to actually practice law.
The feedback we got from clients was that they really appreciated our knowledge we had about real estate,
from going to law school and things like that.
So last week I asked our email subscribers what they are telling people who ask for their thoughts
on going to law school.
To answer, I need to remind myself what I thought being a lawyer was all about, before I became a lawyer or
even went to law school.
It can also be that you became a lawyer because you didn't know what else you should do, you were always good at school so you
just went to law school.
In any event, I'm still convinced that a majority of attorneys
go to law school by default, lacking any strong passion to do what lawyers do.
Don't get me wrong, you should
still go to law school if you want to be a lawyer, but it probably won't be a lot of fun.
Of course this usually involves living in the downtown area of a fairly large city, and if you can already afford that why are you wasting
time going to law school?
But I get fake college girls who put hilarious things
like going to law school (at 20) and med school (at 19) and won't specify the school when asked.
There's not point having people spent lots of
money going to law school if there are no jobs for them in the legal profession.
So you decided to
go to law school despite the reports of doom and gloom and the well - meaning advice of all the successful lawyers you talked to.
The vast
majority go to law school to be admitted into the profession so they can make a better, and arguably more interesting, living than what they were doing before law school.
I realize
attorneys went to law school to practice law, not run a business, but the hard fact is, even a solo attorney is running a small business.
When I first met my wife, I was
going to law school part - time in the evenings and working full - time during the day at a government job.
If you have the time, the money, and the burning desire to
go to law school primarily to get a legal education, then by all means go.
When you are applying for your first law job, the person deciding whether to hire you will have
gone to law school at one time.