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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey OP, why don't you go and open up a bakery?  Because you surely know how to bake brownies and shit so why don't you just open up a business where you hold yourself out as an expert at baking everything and make money that way?[/quote]

IT person here (and person who started a company at age 26). A lot of my friends from college who were in the IT field did indeed start their own companies right out of college. There are fields where it's possible, and tech in particular -- lots of young people in it.[/quote]

You're missing the point: Law isn't one of those fields.  Does your company have a general counsel?  Did you hire her straight out of law school with no experience?  Facebook's inaugural general counsel had an impressive professional legal career before he assumed the post: federal appellate clerkship; Supreme Court clerkship; partnership at Kirkland & Ellis; assistant general counsel to America Online; associate White House counsel; chief of staff to the U.S. Attorney General.  And again, that was Facebook's very first general counsel -- in 2008.  Software engineers can go straight from the dorm room to Facebook's campus.  Lawyers can't.  Maybe your company is different.[/quote]

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