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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gotta LOL and “do it for the love of learning”. I loved college and the learning I did there. I’m 50 and would consider a Masters. Law schools is very much not that. Law school is a boot camp.  It’s an enormous amount of work, much of it on very dry, boring material. And unbelievably stressful. And generally cutthroat. I  mean— [b]a year of property law, a year of civil procedure[/b], a year semester of criminal law, a year of constitutional law (most of IT not the fun stuff), TORTs, evidence. Rule against perpetuities anyone?. All learned by reading and outlining old Supreme Court cases and then being pointed at by a professor and told so stand and drilled in front  of your classmates for an hour. Plus, all the secured transactions, etc you need for the bar.

I’m happy with where I ended up with a law degree (but was miserable the first 5 years of practice, as many people are when they are bottom of the totem poll).[b]  But I hated law school. And I don’t know a single lawyer who enjoyed.[/b]  It’s drill and kill in a high stress environment.  See how The payoff could be wortH it in Your 60s and 70s. 
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And it’s easily an 80 hour week. [/b]Assuming your brain processes as fast as a 24 year olds. Which, it doesn’t. A[b]nd it isn’t small seminars debating the big legal issue of our day. [/b]It’s reading and notating cases, then praying you don’t get called on on the one day you ran out of time.

FYI You can represent social security disability claimants in agency hearing and at the appeals level (but not in federal court) without a JD. May also be possible before the VA. Doing something like that might be a better option. [/quote]

What? Are you really a lawyer?

1) Property and civ pro are not a year long at most law schools.

2) I loved law school. So did a lot of my classmates. So did many of my colleagues. You must not talk much to many other lawyers.

3) Law school "easily an 80 hour week"? What? No, lol. I treated it as a 9-5 MF, and did some studying on Sat and always took Sunday completely off. And I managed to graduate from a first tier school cum laude pretty easily. I didn't even put in 80 hour weeks studying at exam time.

4) We the opportunity to take plenty of "seminars debating the big legal issues of our day." I took more than one.

OP, ignore this PP's nonsense.

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