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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sure if you work in capital markets a law degree may come in useful in structuring certain deals.  However it is not necessary. There is a route to follow for undergrads going into finance. It's called joining an analyst class. My friend was an analyst in capital markets as an undergrad, she worked with he lawyers to structure deals. Many finance jobs will never use a law degre. My previous boss was a sales guy, because law is not the usual route to finance he had to network his ass off, join a less elite firm and then work his way up. If you are in sales and trading or equity research or I banking why will you use your law degree? Straight from undergrad, get an internship, join an analyst class work your way up.

Finance firms recruit from elite undergrads and mba schools. They don't make a special trip to the law school, you have to go to them
If you want a finance job.

Undergrads who go straight to mba/jd also do not know what the working world is like and may get more disillusioned. They don't have the luxury of grad school as a do over. If you go to finance you will find t hard to use that law degree as elite law firms recruit in year three of law schools . If a lawyer trying to join finance you will have to start from scratch over the mbas and the finance undergrads. [/quote]

This is all true, but the one thing my law degree gave me was more options and I was more insulated from lay offs.[/quote]

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