Has anyone ever done Leave Law Behind or something similar? Worth the money?

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I paid the money to do leave law behind. My honest assessment is that it is worth the money if you are very committed to leaving the law. They have very good materials and videos and their coaching is very good. And they are very likable guys.

Be forewarned though: it is NOT at all easy to leave the law and go into another career with similar prestige and pay. And if I have one main criticism it’s that they very much downplay both the fact that you probably will have to take a pay cut to do something else and obviously oversell their success rates. I asked them if they had a guarantee before I signed up and their response boiled down to “everyone who WANTS to leave the law and has done our program has left.” Ok well obviously that’s misleading, and it is clear that a lot of people like me paid for the program and really did want to leave the law but for whatever reason were not able to make that happen. They would probably say of course that I don’t actually WANT to leave I’m sure.

So I would just go in knowing that they want your money and are gonna sell you a bit to get you to join up. And go in knowing that no matter what they told you going in it’s essentially impossible to just leave a decent law career and keep getting paid well to do something else unless like the company you’re already in likes you enough to let you try a non law role with them.

All in all if you’re done it’s a great program and I honestly don’t regret paying for it even though I stayed in law. It still taught me a lot about my own fears and about how to think about careers and money. And it’s helped me believe if I ever did really need to get out of law I could… albeit maybe not in my ideal way.

Feel free to DM with any specific questions.

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Join the Fed Court system. Benefits Rock!

If you are going to do it and commit 100% then yes it is good. If you half ass it, then it is on you and don’t bother.

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I’m thinking about this.
Just Paid off my student loan and saved some money

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