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[quote=Anonymous]I graduated last year from a top 20 Eng school.  Have a job with a small company in the DC area.  I recently got a job with the USPTO.  Pay will be lower.   I also recently took the LSAT and did reasonably well.  I can easily do much better on the LSAT with some prep and get into a top tier Law school.

A family friend in his early thirties is a Patent Examiner (supervisor), is a GS-15 and makes the max salary for that level.  He also got the PTO to pay for his law degree and is an attorney as well.  He strongly recommends that I take the PTO job, get the government to pay for my law degree, work for a few years at the PTO until I get about 10 years or so of experience and then move to private law.  He thinks I can avoid the long hours that fresh law school grads have to put in and I can go into a law firm at a senior level.  Admittedly he doesn't know anyone who has done that but has heard of a couple of people who have done that.

I can go either way.  Law school payments are not an issue.  My parents will pay.

What should I do?  Go the easy route (PTO, free law school, etc) or take the LSAT again, get into a good law school and fo into private law (I understand that I may not get into a Top school or get a high paying job but at this point I need to set a course)?[/quote]

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