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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t do it OP. Waste of time and money.
I’m a Fed at an agency where many of my colleagues are attorneys. I make just over 100k. Many of my colleagues are saddled with law school debt. I just have a bachelors and no debt. We are doing the same job. I’m sure a lot of my colleagues thought they’d be making a lot more money. There is a serious glut of lawyers out there and many of them to not make the $$$ to justify law school. 
Add online law school and your age to that glut and it does NOT look good. [/quote]

Well, if OP just wants to experience law school and then lounge around the federal government her loans would be forgiven in 10 years. Not a terrible outcome in that case.[/quote]

The likelihood of an online, unaccredited law school graduate getting a federal government job is zero.[/quote]

There are plenty of accredited online law schools.[/quote]

No, there are not. There are no ABA accredited online law schools. There are a handful of shitty hybrid programs. Please don't claim that cash-grab masters in legal studies counts as a law school. [/quote]

Here's one

https://www.stmarytx.edu/2021/online-jd-launch/[/quote]

Glad you found the one shit school that has one.  https://www.lawschooltransparency.com/schools/stmarys/jobs[/quote]

Lawyers have bi-modal income. Most will not make 200k.

Having said that, its no more difficult to get into big law as it is to get into other similar paying positions (surgeons, senior/staff software engineers at Google, private equity, hedge funds etc.). Go to a top 14 law school and stay in the top third to half of your class. Associate pay at big law now ranges from 235k - 530k at market firms and 1 mil+ for partners. That comes at the cost of being on call 24/7 but even if you step away from that world in 8 years there a lot of opportunities in corporate, especially in niche areas like securities, IP lit, asset management etc. that pay 300k + while having good work-life (may need relocation from DC though).

Lawyers work a lot but those in big law make many times more than top level federal employees or most other professions in private industry over the course of their careers. [/quote]

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