What is a Lawyer's career goal?

LAWYERS Help for my future career!?

• I want to be a lawyer when i am older. I am currently 15 in high school and i was wondering what website i could look at so i could see what i would need to know when im older. i was also wondering what websites gives you like not hints but tips of becoming a good lawyer. Also what colleges did you lawyers go to?please answer truthfully because i really want to become a lawyer.

• Answer:

  If you are really determined to be a lawyer, you'd better get your butt in gear already and crack the books. The legal field has been over-lawyered for 3 decades or so. Now the market is extremely glutted. You need to get into a top-notch university, graduate in the top 10% of your class, get into a top law school, and graduate in the top 10% of your class to have a prayer of getting a good job. Half of new paralegal positions these days are actually going to recent law school grads and attorneys who cannot find jobs! E.g. from a 2009 grad from a highly respected law school: Top 10 in his graduating class had good job offers by graduation. Top 10% had jobs within a year of graduation. Now about 25% have jobs, many working as law clerks or paralegals. That leaves about 350 graduates of his class still looking for work. He's a "superstar" (firm job offer over $100,000 by graduation day), and there will always be a need for them, therefore jobs for them. If you are not in the top half to 3/4 of your graduating class, you might never be able to work as an attorney. There's nothing for the also-rans. Even the ambulance-chasing market is glutted and nearly impossible to pick up such cases, given the excessive competition. So how brilliant are you? How hard do you work? How bad do you want this? If this horrible news does not change your mind, then you have to go for it with everything you've got. Bust your buns, kiddo!