Im 21, in college, exotic dancer. I want to become a lawyer, what do I need to do to accomplish this?

I'm assuming you're in the U.S. First step is to take the LSAT. That one test is incredibly important for your long-term career as a lawyer. Prepare ferociously for it. Take an LSAT prep course and do whatever it takes to get the highest score you can possibly achieve. That score, coupled with your grade point average can be your ticket to a top ranked law school. In the law, ranking is very important. Once you're in law school, your 1st year is the most important. If you get good grades, you may get onto Law Review which can open doors. Once you start the process, you'll be doing nothing but competing with your fellow classmates for the grades, internships, jobs, etc. Try not to let the pressure consume you. Take on as little debt as you can. Once you complete law school, you need to pass the Bar exam in the state you want to practice in. Also keep in mind, you need to get by the Character and Fitness review to be admitted as an attorney. You'll need to disclose everything that weighs on your character. I doubt the fact that you were a dancer will be enough to deny you your law license, but you need to be forthright with them about everything. Good luck.

Learn to starve...........be able to handle 150.000.00 in student loans......when you finally pass the bar and you find out you will have to work 12 hours a day.......just to make your billable hours......then you find out your trash hauler makes more than you........consider this Advice from another out of work Attorney who can’t pay his student loans….. Warning! Jobs in the field of Law are drying up FAST!! This is not a good field to invest time and/or money into. This is a SHRINKING vocational field. Many reasons. Many people today think they can do their own legal work, thanks to the Internet. We simply have WAY TOO MANY Legal Professionals - we have an absolute GLUT!! ("Legal Professionals" includes, but is not limited to: Attorneys/Lawyers, Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc) Regarding being a Paralegal: Paralegals can be found in many types of businesses. Employers (usually law firms) in the field of Law want employees with BACHELORS degrees from traditional universities/colleges. Those "certificates" you sometimes see advertised, aren't worth the paper they are printed on - they are generally SCAMS. Even IF you finish law school, you won't be able to find a job when you are done. Since this vocational field is shrinking, many new attorneys/lawyers are, themselves, having to work "down" as Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc, to simply try to keep some of THEIR bills paid <THIS would be your competition. And the competition is FIERCE!! Now... the law schools know this, but they won't tell you the truth >that the job market/economy is SATURATED with WAY TOO MANY Legal Professionals. Instead the schools will feed you a fairytale and will LIE to you. The root of the problem is we have too many law schools. We are in a recession, and the schools are fighting for their own survival - they will tell students ANYTHING to get to the students' money. (Which is why they won't tell you the truth about the job market for the field of Law.) AND these schools continue to recruit and churn out even MORE Legal Professionals............. If you don't believe me, then just do a SEARCH here on Yahoo Answers to see what other posters are saying about the current status of the field of Law. In the book "So You Want to be a Lawyer? by Marianne Calabrese and susanne Calabrese (ISBN 0-88391-136-1): "The United States has more lawyers than any other country in the world. About 38,000 students graduate EACH YEAR from 200 law schools in the United States. The competition is very keen for jobs and clients." If you want a JOB when you are done with your studies, consider and look into the field of >>>HEALTHCARE! <THIS is where the jobs are! and scholarships!

it's not a matter of judging, or even us judging, it's a matter that you WILL be judged by your peers and the public. If you're a lawyer then you'd probably want to stay away from anyone who was an exotic dancer, it's just not something to be proud of although I realize it does pay the bills. It doesn't take years of patience it takes your parents having been attorneys, their having attended a school like Harvard and their having given donations to keep the school going, to enable you to get in there to be an attorney and be successful. If you had parents who were attorneys they would have steered you away from exotic dancing years ago. So yes you will struggle to become an attorney that's for sure. To anwer your question fully would take a book. Why not go to Barnes & Nobel or your local library and look it up. To become an attorney you'd be doing a lot of reading, why not start now?