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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I think there are some reasons to be cautious here. The people who go to law school and are successful usually had a strong, intrinsic desire to be a lawyer. They could articulate to themselves some reason why they wanted to be a lawyer other than "I am smart and want to make a good living." I also think it is a very good idea to take at least one year off after college. Not only will you have more perspective, but there are ample studies showing you actually do better in law school (relative to what your grades and LSAT would predict).

That being said, if your DD really does decide it is for her, [i]please[/i] do not freak out about it because of all of the folks online who are pessimistic about job prospects. The current projections accounting both for job growth and reduced applications to law school show the market evening out in about 2018. The earliest DD would possibly enter the profession is more like 2022.

People who graduated in 2009 have very legitimate beefs about how the market played out. But those grievances have absolutely nothing to do with the job prospects your DD will face. I would not factor the current job market into your analysis much at all.

(I don't think this analysis applies just to law by the way; its easy to overthink how much you can know about the job market a decade from now. To give one example, Facebook is less than 10 years old. I am pretty sure that if your daughter had been a junior in 2003 you would have been highly skeptical of her plan to get paid for helping peopel socialize online).[/quote]

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