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[quote=Anonymous]Lawyer here.

Law school is three years, but you aren't really great at practice, especially litigation, until you've done it for at least a few years. By the time you are of much use to clients you'll be approaching, if not beyond, US life expectancy. And criminal defense can be a rough-and-tumble practice. Make sure you aren't romanticizing it; it's more DUI and vandalism than what you'd see on an episode of Law & Order.

That said, we need committed, passionate public defenders. Our system is adversarial and it doesn't work without them. If you can get a law school to let you in (what are your credentials? LSAT score?), and you can afford the tuition, and don't need to make much money, you might be able to do some good. I'd start by taking a practice LSAT if you haven't already -- that will give you a good sense of where you stand, regarding how competitive of a candidate you might be and how suitable a career in the law might or might not be.

My DH went to law school at Catholic in the night program in his late 30s; he says it wasn't easy (but he was working full time as a CPA in a big accounting firm as well). I attended a 1st tier law school and considered myself an "older" student at 29, lol. We had a couple of folks who were late 30s I believe. No one older than that. Doesn't mean you can't do it, though.

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