Regret Attending Law School?

cartera45
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:34:30 +0000

Don’t go to law school assuming it will prepare you for other careers. It does not. You may decide you don’t want to practice law down the road but you should be sure you want to practice law going in. I graduated from law school in the early '80’s and things were very different. I was $5k in debt and thought that was a lot. I did not graduate from a tier 1 school, but no one had trouble finding jobs. I was told that if I scheduled 4 interviews, I would get 2 callbacks and at least one offer. I did just that. The interviews were with were with 2 biglaw firms and 2 boutiques that spun off from biglaw firms. It could not have been more stress free and was night and day from what kids go through today.