Yeah, it’s only worth becoming a lawyer if you can attend a good school and can put in a shitload of hours at the beginning of your career, building a network and skills.
If you’re not the networking type, and you don’t have a lot of time in the day (because you have kids or other obligations), it’s really hard to get a good legal career off the ground. Once it’s going, though, you can consciously find ways to dial back the hours by working for certain employers and working in certain practice areas, but you generally won’t get that opportunity until mid career, and you’ll need to sweatshop early career connections to be able to have those options.
So it doesn’t hurt to take the LSAT. But if you’re not above the 80th percentile, and you’re not able to get into a top 14 school nationally, or the best school in your state outside of those top 14, it’ll be hard to make a good career out of it. Unless you’re a nepo baby. And even then, results may vary.
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Yeah, it’s only worth becoming a lawyer if you can attend a good school and can put in a shitload of hours at the beginning of your career, building a network and skills.
If you’re not the networking type, and you don’t have a lot of time in the day (because you have kids or other obligations), it’s really hard to get a good legal career off the ground. Once it’s going, though, you can consciously find ways to dial back the hours by working for certain employers and working in certain practice areas, but you generally won’t get that opportunity until mid career, and you’ll need to sweatshop early career connections to be able to have those options.
So it doesn’t hurt to take the LSAT. But if you’re not above the 80th percentile, and you’re not able to get into a top 14 school nationally, or the best school in your state outside of those top 14, it’ll be hard to make a good career out of it. Unless you’re a nepo baby. And even then, results may vary.