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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone in my family is a lawyer. You can major in anything. Psychology, Spanish, drama, journalism, accounting, economics, English, art history, advertising, biology, computer science, etc. [/quote]

Why the need for an undergraduate degree? Couldn't people just start law school straight out of high school?[/quote]

We are all lawyers in my family too. [b]When my dad went, he did not need a college degrer. He went straight to law school. CA still has that...everyone knows about Kim K.
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OP, as everyone has written, undergrad majors do not matter for law school.Top grades and LSATs are paramount. People should go to the highest ranked law school that accepts them. If someone does go to a lower ranked law school and dreams of a top firm, I did see it happen in undesirable cities such as Cleveland (big legal market) if they were Editor in Chief of the law review and/or were accounting or engineering majors.[/quote]

That's not quite what CA "has." CA allows you to do what Lincoln did back in the day -- "read for the law." Which is basically apprenticing. You don't need to have attended law school to take the bar exam if you work under a practicing attorney for a min of 18 hours per week for four years. You do have to pass what is referred to as the "baby bar exam" while you apprentice, which tests subjects taught the first year of law school (this is the test Kim K took -- and initially failed, 3x; she will likely never pass the real bar). The practical result of this program is that a lot of paralegals take the CA bar exam and fail it. It's one of the reasons there is a high bar exam failure rate in CA (although a colleague of mine who went to Stanford Law also failed the bar). [/quote]

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