I need help applying for law school

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I wanna do the law conversion at City, and i need some help with my personal statement. Any advice?

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

My advice? Think about the amount of debt you will be in by the time you qualify as a barrister/solicitor, and then you need to factor in being paid fuck all and competing with every other would be lawyer in the country for a place on a course, not necessarily where you want/can afford to live. It's an expensive business to get into so you should be 100% sure you want to go for it.

Are you in the UK? I assume so but may be wrong.

Re the personal statement - giv evidence that you've considered other career paths, but cite relevant experience eg debates, attendance of trials/tribunals etc, legal experience of whatever type, and emphasise what about those events generated your sense of vocation. In other words, bullshit.

Good luck!

― chris sallis, Thursday, 27 January 2005 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

re factoring in "being paid fuck all and competing with every would be lawyer in the country for a place on a course" I meant the extreme level of competition involved in obtaining a training countract/pupiilship (in the UK anyway) and the fact that if you're lucky enough to get a place, you aren't paid very much in the first two years or so. Then you start earning megabucks, which is what it was all about in the first place.

Bullshit - the law is a Sales job.

Correct me if I'm wrong!

― chris sallis, Thursday, 27 January 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure being a lawyer is great, it just drove me mad as a hatter.

― chris sallis, Thursday, 27 January 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

― chris sallis, Thursday, 27 January 2005 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Er, no idea what it's like in the UK, but I probably spent 40+ hours working on my personal statement (wish that was an exaggeration). If you're serious, there's a ton of books available.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, speaking only for me, I wrote my personal statement in about 12 minutes. Law school in the US is a big time numbers game, if your GPA from undergrad and LSAT score are at a certain level I'm fairly certain you can send a macaroni art self portrait of yourself as a personal statement.

Good luck Lukey. Law school was a great experience in most ways, and unmitigated hell in others. All told I think its well worth it.

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I've done a law conversion course, I just don't want to be a lawyer.

― chris sallis, Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Just skip out miss the ice flicks of Bacardi

Fuck, this is strong crack.

― chris sallis, Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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