Other than being a lawyer, what occupations can a law degree get you?

What can I do with a Law Degree other than be a trial lawyer?

• What can I do with a Law Degree other than be a trial lawyer? I'm about to get my history degree, and law school is sounding more and more appealing, but I really don't want ...show more

• Answer:

  Please if you do not want to be a lawyer, if law is not your passion, if you do not feel a real calling to law --- then please, please do not go to law school. Law school is very hard. Besides costing around 6-figures, it is a brutal method of teaching, much like the way the military recruits are yelled at during basic training and then taught to do a task the military way. Only in law school the disrespect, the hazing, does not end until graduation. Once out of law school you realize that you were not taught how to be a lawyer, only the theory of the law. Great! Theory does not get clients or win cases. FYI just because a person has a law degree and passes the 2 day bar exam to be a licensed attorney, does not mean that they will ever be involved in a trial. Many attorneys go their entire career without ever stepping into a courtroom. You need to do some research on being a lawyer. I suggest you go to the LSAT website which has information on the profession at http://www.lsat.org/ and the American Bar Association website at http://www.abanet.org/ Again, if you do not have a legitimate calling to be a lawyer, do not clog up the law school and waste your time. Our profession is about 50% of unhappy lawyers who cannot get jobs. The rest of us fight the public perception that we make tons of money (we don't) and everything is just like on TV (it isn't).