Going To Law School

where do they usually list jobs (nyc). obv, i haven't seen any listings on idealist.org. any help would be greatly appreciated.

eisbar and others seemed to make it seem like the jobs aren't too hard to find.

colin, from what you've posted it's sounds like the experience of paralegal work will turn me off the profession, but it seems worth a look.

i still can't quite wrap my head around why the big firms are so awful, but i don't doubt the claims

But if you wanna check it out, go for it. The money's ok.

Have you been lobbying any lawmakers on this?

I don't necessarily dislike the nature of the work, but the profession itself and the money that most of us have to pay to gain entree thereto are both serious, serious downsides.

The tip about going to a law school where you want to live? Unless you go to UVa, G-town, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, et al., that is the absolute truth. I just moved to LA after going to Catholic in DC, and I am not looking forward to months of trying to find a job. Thank god I have a gainfully employed spouse.

xpost i haven't worked in corporate america, i spent my last three yeare teaching in the south bronx in the new york city teaching fellows. i needed a change. i imagine this will be a schockingly drastic one.

My better half (Mr. Que) works in the library of a large DC firm. He likes it, but would never ever ever consider law as a career. Anyhow you might want to look into law library jobs--there seem to be a lot of them, even for newbies.

Haha, Q, I never heard that story:)

8th grade english.

the first year was hell, but i really enjoyed the other two.

i will do a and b but c is out of the question

I hear copyright law is exciting and intellectually fulfilling.

Perfect lawyer material, then!

(haha. okay, kidding. they drank a lot of beer and coffee too.)

"i don't have a tv" but i'm afraid i won't want to do pleasure reading anymore (which keeps me from wanting to die or do meth). but i'm not sure how much of horror stories i should believe.

also gabnebb or someone else? let's say i want to be a labor lawyer (partly because i care about the workers but partly because i would make slightly more money at it (right?) than poverty lawyering, which i am also interested in but i have mad loans to pay off and can't make it on 30k/year). so they said you can just take whatever classes you're interested in so you wouldn't have to just take only stuff related to whatever kind of law you want to go into. is that really true? like if i took poverty law and whatever random theory classes i want it would be ok and i could still be a labor lawyer? i don't have to worry about this until spring but i want to know now. also i know i might totally change my mind but the question would still stand, i guess.

i would keep in mind that you might think you're interested in a particular area because you imagine yourself enjoying work for certain kinds of clients, but later learn that the actual substantive law of that area doesn't interest you very much (or that the practice may be different from how you imagined it). or vice versa.

also yeah all those things about not liking the actual law part of things i know that. which is why the question means kind of in general.

xpost - space law does in fact exist, at least at your larger law schools. i imagine it has to do with satellites or something and is very boring and populated by not gonna happen doods.

labour law is a good idea, i think!

haha omg

or i want to be the next jim "the hammer" shapiro

maybes - federal courts (should probably take eventually, especially if litigation-oriented, but maybe save for later; also, hard), some sort of regulatory law (environmental, say, or the more general administrative law, probably important if you want to do employment discrimination)), tax law (hard, but maybe not for math types, and if it turns out relevant to something you want to do you probably want to start early), labor and/or employment/employment discrimination law (i'd be wont to wait for third year, personally, but if it's a particular interest of yours, you probably want to start now; i never got around to them), secured transactions (boring and not necessarily relevant practically, but potentially important theoretically), family law, trusts and estates (maybe save for later?), international law (poli sci-like, i think), a research and/or theory-oriented class

i took a legal theory class as my first-year elective and while i had some brief qualms later about whether i should have taken a class or two that never made the cut in the end, i was very happy with my choice at the time.