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The life of attorneys

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MichDeac25 said:
With all due respect, it's like you haven't been paying attention to the legal market the last 10 years. There aren't a million different lawyer jobs anymore. Law school debt, legal services contraction, companies disinterest in hiring JD's have all had a profound effect.
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Whatever. I have been paying attention but you appear to have misread my post. I wasn't saying that there were millions of jobs or that a job was easy to get. My point was that there are tons of different KINDs of jobs within the legal community. Different types of jobs requiring different skills, different levels of commitment and providing different levels of pay-off, both financial and otherwise. That is true no matter what state the economy is in and no matter how difficult those jobs may be to get.

I understand there has been contraction in the industry, making it more difficult to get a job. I was not addressing that aspect of the question. I was discussing the pros and cons of lawyer as a job - assuming you can get a job (big assumption, I realize).

If you can go to a good or decent law school and finish in the upper part of your class and otherwise can relate to people and present yourself well in an interview, I think there are still plenty of opportunities out there.

If, on the other hand, you can only get into a bottom tier school and/or struggle to compete in the classroom and therefore finish in the bottom part of your class, things might be more difficult for you - unless you have other factors going for you.

Anyone who is paying big bucks to go to a lower-tier, for-profit law school while taking out big college loans - well, I don't think anyone is going to tell you that is a good idea right now.
 
A law degree also provides a built-in opportunity to own your own business. It is not for everyone and it is extremely risky... but... If you are smart and willing to work your ass off, especially at first, you can simply hang out a shingle and go to work. There are literally no limits on what you can build - but it takes gumption, skill, a lot of work and a good bit of luck to be successful.
 
scooter84 said:
A law degree also provides a built-in opportunity to own your own business. It is not for everyone and it is extremely risky... but... If you are smart and willing to work your ass off, especially at first, you can simply hang out a shingle and go to work. There are literally no limits on what you can build - but it takes gumption, skill, a lot of work and a good bit of luck to be successful.
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Thank you, Tony Robbins of Cary NC!
 
scooter84 said:
A law degree also provides a built-in opportunity to own your own business. It is not for everyone and it is extremely risky... but... If you are smart and willing to work your ass off, especially at first, you can simply hang out a shingle and go to work. There are literally no limits on what you can build - but it takes gumption, skill, a lot of work and a good bit of luck to be successful.
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No it doesn't. A law license does that and there are plenty of people that can get one and not the other.
 
Plenty other degrees afford those opportunities as well.
 
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