― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
It's my happy place.
― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link
This is what I'm worried about. Am I looking at four...no, wait...eigh--twelve years of no hobbies? :/
― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
ahahahahaha
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link
She's not *making* me do anything, but she keeps saying stuff like "You're so good at this stuff. You love to argue and over-analyze things. Why don't you just do it?" as though it were all as easy as taking the LSAT. So here I am going to ILX for back-up.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 03:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 03:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link
I have enjoyed reading the theories as to how easy it is to get a job, how unimportant grades are, and how the practice of law is from people who are still students, though. How enlightening. I'll enjoy your updates upon graduation, and during your job search.
Being a lawyer may make you bitter.
― lawmclawlaw (allie b), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― lawmclawlaw (allie b), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Thursday, 28 September 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm sure some do, but I woudn't say that's a given - the firm where I clerk starts associates at $50k. You are absolutely correct that $70,000 is more than $34,000, though.
― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 28 September 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― c('°c) (Leee), Thursday, 28 September 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 28 September 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Bottom line - go to top 10 school, be in top 25-10% of your class, schmooze hard, get posh job in posh firm, work 70 hours a week monday through sunday.
― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Thursday, 28 September 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 28 September 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
No billable hours? Dare to dream. Billable hours can eat me.
― lawmclawlaw (allie b), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Don't go to law school for the money unless you're willing to work insanely long hours both during and after you graduate and are willing to do work for clients that you might find distasteful and make arguments you might find equally distasteful.
― J (Jay), Thursday, 28 September 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 13 October 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
I also fear that my interest may be too academic, if that makes sense. At times that makes me consider legal academia as an option. I know from previous grad school that I have the temperament for acedemic work, and my exposure to legal scholarship gives me the (possibly false) impression that it favors a wider-ranging and more interdisciplinary approach than other quarters of the academy. But is the job market as dire as in the humanities/social sciences? And is the choice between practice and scholarship one I'd have to make in my first year of school? Please to make my life decisions for me, ILE.
― xtof (xtof), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link
there might be more choices than just practise or academia if you are interested in black letter law, which i suppose is what you mean about the academic interest. for example, you might look for work at whatever organisation drafts legislation in your country, or the local law reform commission, or go into some kind of legislative policy type work. i have just commenced as an associate to a supreme court judge and it is ALL scholarly stuff. which is cool and completely different to what my mates in firms are doing.
― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Become a law librarian. Get a joint J.D./M.L.S. and work in an academic law library.
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Some schools have tuition repayment programs that help you A LOT with your debt if you choose public interest or something low-paying. You should look into this more if debt is the only thing keeping you from doing it.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 23 November 2006 08:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― paper.prentice, Sunday, 25 February 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― gem, Sunday, 25 February 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Funny to read my old posts on this thread. I think I'm already in a pretty different mental place than I was 1-2 years ago. Still thinking law school - Fall 2008 at this point - but feeling less entangled with other peoples' ideas of what I should do and more able to sort it out for myself. Starting to think music/entertainment/IP law might be a good field and have been speaking to a few people who have done it.
One question - I have a 170 LSAT from last year and not very good grades (though I'll be 5+ years out of school when I apply). I know I didn't do my best (I scored 175 on my last practice test, and I think I could prepare more than I did) - should I retake the LSAT or is it not worth it?
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 10 June 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
170 is good
― cutty, Sunday, 10 June 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm just wondering if I should try to edge up a few points to help make up for my bad grades
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 10 June 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link