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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Step One is getting through law school.  [b]Assuming you go full time, expect to having to put in a solid 10-12 hours a day for the next three years.   [/b]Then you have to study for the bar exam.  Then you have to get hired, and unless you are willing to start at a lower salary “flexibility” and being a junior lawyer don’t mix.

You are at least a half a dozen years away from what you after, at which point you will be much closer to 50 than 40.  [/quote]

What? No. Ugh, I hate it when people who are clearly not lawyers play them on DCUM.

I went to a first-tier law school and graduated top 15% of my class and I treated it like a full-time job, spending about 8-9 hours a day at school, attending class and studying in the library. I spent a few hours (or more if I had a paper due or something) on Saturday studying, but took every Sunday completely off. Law Review work or Moot Court Board (which you have to do, OP, if given the opportunity) can add hours, but you get credit hours for it.[/quote]

This poster is right about the second part though. You don't get flexibility once at a law firm until way down the line, and even then, it's "flexibility". You have to be reachable to put out fires late at night, during weekends...[/quote]

New people often don't get how things really are. I spent a lot of time in big law before moving to a small firm with some other big law defectors. Sure, we have some flexibility in where we work, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t answering emails late at night.  We recently brought on someone who's never worked in big law and integrated them into deals and they thought they could just take time off whenever and leave the other people on the deal hanging.  If it were up to me, we'd only hire folks who graduated at the top of their class, made law review, and put in their time in big law before wanting flexibility.  People looking for flexibility and easier rides with poor law school grades and no big firm experience have been a liability.  [/quote]

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