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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s the best advice for someone who wants to be pre-law.  Take a year after college to work as a paralegal.  If you still want to be a lawyer after that, you are likely to be happy with your career.  So many lawyers are unhappy because they go to law school with little knowledge of what practicing law actually entails.[/quote]

Gramps here.

This is very good advice.  Many of the top law firms in DC hire freshly-minted, high achieving college grads (regardless of their major) for temporary stints (think 1-2 years) as paralegals.  The pay is decent, and there's typically overtime.  For some of these paralegals, the experience cements their desire to go to law school and work in Biglaw.  For others, it doesn't dissuade them from law school, but steers them them into another direction in the profession (public interest, government, smaller firms, etc.).

For others, the experience sends them running for the hills.

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I’m the pp.  In addition, the paralegal can wind up with some good references and will have hopefully been able to put some money away to pay for law school.[/quote]

If you mean good references for future employment, I guess they can help.  By law firm references for paralegals for law school generally carry little to no weight, especially when it comes to elite law schools.  Most make clear that they place much more value on references from college professors.  See, for example:  https://hls.harvard.edu/dept/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/the-application-process/application-components/#tab1-8[/quote]

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