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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To clarify- I’m considering part time law school. [/quote]

Are you paying for it? If yes, then only do it if you want to practice as a lawyer. If no, then sure.

If course, if you're asking whether law school is a good investment in general? For the average grad, no, absolutely not. At a T14, then it's probably a decent investment for about half the class.

I strongly recommend that you look at the bimodal distribution of lawyer salaries, and understand that there's a high and a low, and nothing in between. The mythical group in the middle - - in house counsel, non-supervisory GS15s, etc - - started at a big law firm. [/quote]

I always thought like this poster, but now that I'm a hiring manager in-house, I see that it isn't quite true.  I have seen many resumes of lawyers who start in-house after doing in-house internships or low-level state clerkships and similar, and spend a lot of time at very small companies or as contract manager type roles at larger companies.  These lawyers seem to be heavily weighted to commercial transactions lawyers, and definitely do seem to have lower salaries than their counterparts who came from big law.  The salaries we've been asked to match are more "middle" --- in the $90k to $150k range.  The biggest risk for this type of lawyer is that their work is easily automated, or pushed down to lower-level "contract manager" types.

I myself am a T5 graduate who spent 7 years at a firm, and came in-house as a sr counsel.[/quote]

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