[bookwormer]

Just wondering if any of you know what the daily work load is for a law student?

If you went to law school, did you like it? Would you recommend it?

[sed0007]

Reading the equivalent of a short novel every night gives you an idea of the volume of the 'daily assignment' portion of the workload.

Add the hour or two a day you need to do researching for moot court or other projects, and you can begin to appreciate the need to be organized and efficient with your time.

I hated it, and would only recommend it if you know beforehand that someone is going to hire you.....if you haven't the 'connections' within your family, you better really love the law.


Just sayin'

[PovertyPenalty]

Originally Posted by sed0007 To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Reading the equivalent of a short novel every night gives you an idea of the volume of the 'daily assignment' portion of the workload. Add the hour or two a day you need to do researching for moot court or other projects, and you can begin to appreciate the need to be organized and efficient with your time. I hated it, and would only recommend it if you know beforehand that someone is going to hire you.....if you haven't the 'connections' within your family, you better really love the law. Just sayin'

Do you still practice or did you move into something else?

How was moot court? What I'm asking is, did you feel it was a chance for you to hone your skills, or was it a chance for the professors to tear you apart?

Did you do any extra things like law review, or ACLU?

If you're still practicing, which courses were the most useful? Is there anything you wish you would have done in law school that you didn't end up doing?

[RedHerring]

Originally Posted by sed0007 To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Reading the equivalent of a short novel every night gives you an idea of the volume of the 'daily assignment' portion of the workload. Add the hour or two a day you need to do researching for moot court or other projects, and you can begin to appreciate the need to be organized and efficient with your time. I hated it, and would only recommend it if you know beforehand that someone is going to hire you.....if you haven't the 'connections' within your family, you better really love the law. Just sayin'

I found sed007 to be pretty accurate. Around 1000 pages a week give or take. Usually professors use the Socratic Method as well, so you have to have a pretty good grasp of the material and how it related to past case law/reading assignments, otherwise prepare for some humiliation.

I also hated it. In today's economy, I would not pay the hefty price tag to go work a job where you need to pull in 2000 billable hours per year or the chance of getting a good job is slim. I read somewhere that law schools are graduating the equivalent of the entire population of existing lawyers annually. Assuming that is a true statement, that's quite a large pool to compete against.

I ended up in business as an Operations Manager for a Litigation Support Operation. Some of those law related careers sound interesting.

The recommended courses depend on what kind of law you want to practice.

[sed0007]

Originally Posted by RedHerring To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

I found sed007 to be pretty accurate. Around 1000 pages a week give or take. Usually professors use the Socratic Method as well, so you have to have a pretty good grasp of the material and how it related to past case law/reading assignments, otherwise prepare for some humiliation. I also hated it. In today's economy, I would not pay the hefty price tag to go work a job where you need to pull in 2000 billable hours per year or the chance of getting a good job is slim. I read somewhere that law schools are graduating the equivalent of the entire population of existing lawyers annually. Assuming that is a true statement, that's quite a large pool to compete against. I ended up in business as an Operations Manager for a Litigation Support Operation. Some of those law related careers sound interesting. The recommended courses depend on what kind of law you want to practice.

True dat.


As to the previous post, I did not do law review or any other extraneous stuff. I worked both full and part-time. To me, law-review was a luxury akin to a country club..

I had 3 to 5 W-2's a year for seven years working my way through to the degree. Never did an Easter break in Florida. I did not need to take a loan until my second-last year.

I value the education for the well-roundedness it gave me. I do not still practice. I got in for the wrong reason. (Overachieving son of a steelworker; only one in family to get a B.A., let alone a graduate degree)

I know a lot of folks who have left practicing, and others who just plain hate it. For a couple of years I was a divorce factory. The end of my first marriage led me to the decision to follow my heart rather than what I had been told I should do from grade school on.


The best advice I can give you is to get a sense of pacing down as you study for the bar and take the practice exams. It is more important to finish the damned thing than it is to get everything totally correct.

You will do what you will do. Try to make sure its' what's in your heart.

[bookwormer]

Thanks for all the replies. I am interested in legislative writing for international bodies. As of right now I am working on a Gender Studies degree. I am just trying to get a feel what I can do when I am done my degree.

[RedHerring]

I also worked during school and managed to get out with half the loans other students did. Just about any undergrad degree will suffice. As long as you do well grade wise and get a decent score on your LSAT and can write coherently and logically, you should be fine for getting into law school.

I am seriously considering the foreign service as a career and many of the candidates are former attorneys. I wholeheartedly agree with sed007's point about a law school giving you well rounded education. It is a great jumping off point for many careers. Just be sure the pay of your potential future job can handle the now obligatory loans you will have to take out.

If your interest is in legislative writing for international bodies, I would take a heavy concentration in legal writing and international law classes, perhaps even conflict of laws as well.

[lonelytraveller]

Originally Posted by RedHerring To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

I found sed007 to be pretty accurate. Around 1000 pages a week give or take. Usually professors use the Socratic Method as well, so you have to have a pretty good grasp of the material and how it related to past case law/reading assignments, otherwise prepare for some humiliation. I also hated it. In today's economy, I would not pay the hefty price tag to go work a job where you need to pull in 2000 billable hours per year or the chance of getting a good job is slim. I read somewhere that law To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. are graduating the equivalent of the entire population of existing lawyers annually. Assuming that is a true statement, that's quite a large pool to compete against. I ended up in business as an Operations Manager for a Litigation Support Operation. Some of those law related careers sound interesting. The recommended courses depend on what kind of law you want to practice.

That's statement is a cautious one. So you need to compete with them all. But don't you think that not every lawyers out there are good and even if you make some efforts, you'll have a minumum food here since cases are aplenty. But yeah, it's an hectic field, I admit that. In other hand it is really interesting field if you are passionate about it.