Be honest, what made you want to get into law?
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I want to take a practice GMAT but they were out of tests and said I could take a practice LSAT instead. I crushed the LSAT and said, what the hell, why not. No regrets, aside from the ones I have every day.
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Didn't know what to do with a polisci degree and got tired of working deadend customer service jobs.
Didn’t know what wanted to do with life. Had a humanities degree. I was told I could either be a teacher, work at Macy’s, or get a grad degree. I like history, writing, and reading and speech and debate so it was between journalism and law school. Journalism has become a less stable career in the age of Twitter reporters so law it was
My parents more or less made me do something after my bachelor's, and I didn't find a Masters or PhD. program I liked, and my ex GF at the time was studying for the LSAT so I decided I'd just do it too.
Had a poli sci degree, didn’t really have any other good ideas, wanted money and respect. I’m sure there are better ways to accomplish that but it was all I could think of at the time.
I liked arguing. And my dad suggested it. I thought I would like it. And I do, sometimes
I got bored easily in school and at work. I figured this would challenge me and force me to constantly learn new things. I also liked the idea of having the flexibility to change practice areas as needed. Plus a friend of mine in high school was in foster care and had some horrible stories. I wanted to help kids like her get adopted.
I thought it would be a good vehicle to make a meaningful positive social impact. The only other career I ever really considered was being a professor, but I don’t really like writing and wanted to teach lower level classes but focus academically on higher level subjects
I’m 34 and I woke up one day being like “I need a PhD, MD, or JD.” Being a clinician was getting boring after a year and the MCAT was too hard and I just could not do well enough on the physics portion to make applying to med school worth while. So, JD was all that was left (in my psycho mind). I knew not one single thing about the legal field. But I love it!!
I got burned out of my job and needed a change. Assessed what my strengths were and what parts of the job I enjoyed most. I’m very detail oriented, have always liked language/English classes, I don’t mind being in the weeds with things, I think I’m good at anticipating needs/outcomes and troubleshooting, I’d done some work negotiating and drafting licenses and really enjoyed that. Looked into an MBA and absolutely did not want to deal with the accounting and marketing side of things. Kept coming back to law as a good fit for me. And after looking into it, was excited about the different paths you could take - MBAs are good for business, but law could be business, litigation, nonprofit work, teaching, writing, advocacy… it seemed less like only 1 path, which makes it good for switching careers.
Now a biglaw corporate first year and so far so good. I think it is playing to those strengths I listed. Business-y without having to do accounting, hah
💰💰💰. After scrolling up realized someone already said this but preserving for the sake of statistics. I think if most people were honest they would say they wanted a job that paid pretty well and the only thing they really had the skills to do was law. I’m not an extremely social person so MBA/businessperson wouldn’t work well for me and I suck at math and science so can’t be an engineer… so law was the default relatively easy/fast way to a high paying career.
It was a purely emotional decision for me - I was sexually assaulted in undergrad and decided that no one would mess with me / I could defend myself better if I was a lawyer.
Now I work in house, which I don't mind most of the time.