Scholarships for law school?

blossom
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 01:19:40 +0000

I have no axe to grind. I’m not a lawyer. I seem to interview dozens of lawyers every year for corporate jobs that do not involve the law-- some are lawyers who practiced and wanted a pivot, some never got that first legal job and are looking to launch.

Of course there are tens of thousands of happy and fulfilled lawyers. I recently updated my will; my lawyer loves her work. Small firm, happy lawyers. But she’s closing in on retirement, and next time I see her I’ll ask if the trajectory she had (earning a comfortable living with wills, adoptions, closings on residential property) is possible these days. I know that “low end” estate work is fiercely competitive where I live- a real race to the bottom.

For kids who want to become lawyers- of course, that means law school. But for a not-trivial percentage of kids who end up in law school- it is NOT because they want to be lawyers. It’s because they can’t think of anything else to do after they graduate from college.

And in the current environment, that seems like poor logic.

No axe here. Go in peace.