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[quote=Anonymous][quote]and, again, hordes of grads are getting out of school with a ton of debt and either cannot find a job as an attorney or are working a soul-sucking job in an awful practice area like debt collections or low-level personal injury. try servicing 90-150k in loans on a salary of 40-50k.

dismiss this as "crazy hyperbole" at your peril.[/quote]

While I certainly think that law school is a huge risk these days, I think part of why a PP called it crazy hyperbole is that there is virtually no career path where your financial and time investment will necessarily pan out in this economy.  However, depending on your situation and goals, even in this overglutted market, law school CAN make sense for some people.  There are certain things you can only do with a law degree, or even if the law degree is not strictly necessary, will get your foot in the door.  When your earning potential and career mobility is stagnating , sometimes you have to make the call over whether or not it is worth it to get more education.  It's a risk that can pay off.

Although I understand there are serious problems with the debt burden law school entails and with the job market out there, I think part of the negativity comes from the fact that the legal market is huge in DC so lawyers are overrepresented on this forum.  People don't know how much just about every professional job market sucks right now--they just know their corner of the universe.[/quote]

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