<p>So I took the question directly to the source, my wife, who is a partner in an AmLaw 200 firm. I asked her what would her advice be to someone wanting to go to law school that could currently apply to law school, given the current job environment for lawyers. Her response was as follows:</p>
<p>“If you are a very strong writer who enjoys looking through large amount of reading material, analyzing it, and coming up with solutions and then writing them down, definitely apply to law school. If you’re doing it because you don’t know what else to do, you think you’ll make a lot of money, or you think it’s easy money, don’t apply. The job market four years from now is impossible to predict, we’re hiring good people right now, we’re always looking to hire good people, we just don’t necessarily give them everything they’re looking for. And we fire bad people all the time as well.”</p>
<p>As for HS students, that’s so far off, she said you have no idea what you’l be doing by the time it’s time to apply, and half the people who wind up becoming lawyers have no idea they want to be one right now.</p>
<p>So if you want to argue with her, go ahead, but you’re going to lose. I usually do.</p>