<p>Is being a legal secretary for >2.5 years be valuable experience for an undergraduate who wants to attend law school? Or will that experience be inevitable/common knowledge once I enroll and take classes at law school?</p>
<p>It’s can’t hurt. One benefit of working in a law office is that it may help you decide whether you really want to be a lawyer. Reading and proofing legal documents may give you some understanding of the legal process and may help you understand what you are being taught in law school. The degree of benefit from being a legal secretary in a small law office, however, I would not expect to be too dramatic.</p>
<p>Is this something you’re currently doing? I wouldn’t otherwise recommend it as a way to increase your chances. Is it valuable? Yes. If you read the correspondence and the documents, you have a real sense of how the law actually works and that applies in class. It won’t directly help you in many ways, though I can imagine working for a litigator will help in civ pro. But it’s much more helpful in real life after school.</p>
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<p>After hearing all these horror stories, I’m starting to think that I should para for a year before applying.</p>