Yep - that I've seen, commercial real estate and private equity/finance seem to be popular if not actually practicing law.

eh, one of the things that appealed to me about the law in the first place is how many uses it could be put to! in practice, i haven't really seen it work out that way. almost everyone initially went either (1) big law; (2) government; or (3)public interest organization, with a smattering of academics. 15 years later, most of the biglaw people have shifted to smaller firms or inhouse, government people stuck with government, and public interest people moved up or moved on to something more advocacy related. only a handful of people seem to have gone out of law entirely in my class. that I know of, anyhow. maybe it will be different by my 25th reunion, too. I kind of hope so; I'm getting bored!

That doesn't surprise me at all OP. Law is a great field of study and lends itself to a lot of fields. They don't call law firm jobs "golden handcuffs" for nothing. Much of law firm work is quite boring. There are more exciting things to do with your law degree.

I think those are cool things to end up doing, OP, so not sure if I see that as a bad thing. A law degree from a top school enables you a few luxuries: An almost guaranteed high income for the first 10 years out of law school, and a well respected school on your resume to bounce to something else. That means that 15-20 years out, your classmates probably had a lot of money already saved and got to take some entrepreneurial risks -- which everyone knows is where the real money comes from.

My friends who went to grad school for, say, policy, have to stay in their jobs until 65 (or their pension) because they are making $150k and will continue to make a similar salary plus inflation through their career.

A large percentage of people with any degree are doing something unrelated to that degree.

Anonymous wrote:Yup. I went to a top law school. Lots of us have quit practicing. And many more wish they could!

Ditto

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Anonymous wrote:Who the hell goes to a college class reunion??

Sounds like he/she went to a law school reunion since that's what the thread is about.

Did you go?

That's because when you work in law you have to work with the other lawyers.

Anonymous wrote:Who the hell goes to a college class reunion??

Sounds like he/she went to a law school reunion since that's what the thread is about.

Yup. I went to a top law school. Lots of us have quit practicing. And many more wish they could!

Who the hell goes to a college class reunion??

Tech wizards?

And what are you? Jobless?

Fascinating, captain.

Just went to 25th reunion from a Top 10. There's a lot of real estate brokers, IPO people, and tech wizards.