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[quote=Anonymous]DO NOT GO TO LAW SCHOOL

the job market is shit. whatever inspired you to go to school (environmental law, sports law, consumer protection) is almost definitely NOT what you will be doing when you graduate.

most likely, when you graduate you will take a job making 45k at a shitshop "firm," where you may even be paid as a 1099 (which means you have to pay all your employment taxes). the owner of the firm will have coffee stains on his JC penney shirt and will throw on his rumpled ass jacket when it's time to go to court on that trip and fall case he took. the client, shaniqua, will have called him 37 times "axing" where her money be.

either that, or you will do doc review at $25 an hour. mind-numbing horseshit that with no job security, and you are treated like a second-class citizen by "real" big firm associates supervising the project.

if you go to georgetown and do well, you have about a 40% shot at a biglaw/decent govt gig, which will allow you to at least service your debt. if you go to any of the other schools mentioned here, your chances vary from 5-12%.  the alternative, for the most part, is as outlined above.

in any event, you will not "help people" when you graduate.  whatever it is you went to law school for, you will not be doing that. [/quote]

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