Law Career Alternatives

MomofWildChild
Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:32:07 +0000

I think it’s gotten more complicated, though. It used to be that law school wasn’t as expensive and you could get a law degree and choose a different path other than the big firms. Now, many students have such huge loans, that they can’t really afford the public interest jobs or smaller firms. The old days of hanging out a shingle are no more. I know someone who just graduated from Wash U Law and did NOT want to accept the Big Law offer she had from a Chicago firm, but she has to in order to pay back the loans. She will suffer for a few years and then, hopefully, move on.