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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks everyone for your thoughts.  I am going to go ahead and just take law school off the radar.

What I do find interesting is that while maybe you guys are right...[b]most people just want to tell you not to do something rather than go for it[/b].

Again, you are probably right, but no one at all looked at anything positive.  I guess that is part of the reason why I am so lost.[/quote]

The majority of people on this board are lawyers.  We are negative about your prospects because we are in the industry now and have been watching it decline for years.  More than that, we all know dozens of people like you (and, honestly, people who are better positioned to take a big risk) who went into law school debt, failed to get a job, and now wish they'd never gone to law school.

Junior employees routinely ask me for letters of recommendation or other help getting into law school, and I tell every one of them to find another path.  But nobody listens: each thinks she will be top of her class and magically succeed where thousands of others are failing.  Well, only one person can be top of each class and in this market, even that person can't find a job.  There is a whole lost generation of lawyers who did not get legal jobs during the recession and probably will never get them now: you'd be competing for work with them, as well as with your classmates, as well as with those of us who have been employed as lawyers for years and also want whatever work you're trying to pull in.

I wish you luck, but you will find more luck out of law school than in it.[/quote]

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