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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a lawyer and no have no idea if my college freshman will want to become a lawyer, but isn't this similar to what any graduate can expect when seeking a job?  Some will immediately become gainfully employed, while it may take longer for others.  Those who graduate from elite schools may have their first choice of jobs, while those who graduates from a school ranked 500 may take longer to find their place.

Either way, the likelihood is that no recent graduate, and I'd include those from undergrad and graduate schools, is going to remain in their first job for a long time.  More likely, they'll bounce around from job to job during their 20s until they find something that sticks for them.  So, why does it matter so much where you go to school unless you're aiming for a very niche career path like Wall Street, Big Law, etc.

I just think our kids should go to schools that won't put them or us in debt, where they can mature and START to figure out who and what they want to become in life.  I just feel like DCUM especially makes this more complicated than it needs to be because there is so much focus on brand names.

Again, not a lawyer so what do I know.[/quote]

Google bimodal lawyer salaries to see why that’s not entirely accurate. Law is unusually feast and famine. [/quote]

Add to this that law can shut you out of other jobs as well.  The real issue is that law schools will pump out another crop of law students before the recent graduates all secured jobs.  [/quote]
Employers that hire entry level attorneys only hire the current (or upcoming) graduating class.  They won't hire the dregs of the prior class.  So if you don't get an offer as you are graduating or shortly after, you likely will never get a job as a lawyer.  You end up shut out of entry level employment with a JD that hurts you in applying for non-lawyer jobs. It's not really an option to bounce around for a few years before finding a career like it is after a BA or BS.  [/quote]

[b]Non-lawyer here and sorry if I'm derailing the discussion, but I always thought that having a law degree gives you more options than an MBA or other Masters degree, for example.  With a JD, you could become a lawyer but if that doesn't work out for whatever reason, your JD is still valuable in non-lawyer careers, [/b]whereas an MBA or other Masters can never be a lawyer.  I understand a Masters is usually a 2-year commitment whereas a JD is 3-years, so more time and money, but if you set aside the time and money factor, is it still bad to get a JD if you don't end up becoming a lawyer?[/quote]
Another non-lawyer here, whose husband is a lawyer and has spent his 25 years as a lawyer telling people who are considering law school that the bolded is absolutely not true. A JD is not a flexible degree. You should only go to law school if you actually want to be a lawyer, because people don’t want to hire lawyers for jobs where they’re not going to be lawyers.[/quote]

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