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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I are both in business so not at all familiar with this field, but DD (junior) texted me last week "I think I really wanna go for a law degree now" and has been on the topic ever since..

Sigh..

At first she had her heart set on the medical field...but after taking a few AP science courses this year she's decided she never wants to hear the word chemistry after this year and thereby ruled out anything medical...then she had her heart set on being an English major at "a cute liberal arts college" but then decided she'd never get a job with an English degree.  So now, she's thinking law.  Truth is, I think she would make an excellent lawyer. She is very much a humanities kid - I envy her writing skills, she has competed nationally on the forensics circuit and is very persuasive.  But quite frankly, the job market for lawyers scares me and I'm not really on board with her getting into mounds of debt with little job prospects.

Thoughts?  FWIW, she's not as ditzy as she often comes across as.  
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basically it's been the fallback position for people who can't get into med school.  Half my generation seems to have gone into law.  Its for people with no real talent for doing anything truly worthwhile.  So what're you going to do - say no we won't pay for it? [/quote]

Ha.  [b]I can't wait until you find yourself in a pickle with the law one day and try to get your own damn self out of it.  Good luck with that[/b].[/quote]

C'mon. You can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting a half a dozen lawyers. 
And for your info, I am one.[/quote]

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