12. Experience Endless Learning: Ugh. Stop.
13. Join a Community:
Being a law student teaches you that it’s okay to not know.
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That’s not my recollection of the Socratic Method.
14. Get Out of Your Lease: Sure, you’ll be able to understand a boilerplate lease. But remember this is one of the reasons why law school “is the best decision you’ll ever make” and we’re already at “you can read your rental agreement because you’ll still be renting for years and years after law school.”
15. Get a Leg Up in the Job Market:
Law school provides the confidence and credentials for any job, even if a law degree isn’t required. The analytical and communication skills go beyond the courtroom. If you decide to explore a career outside of law such as business development, consulting or recruiting, a law degree speaks volumes on a resume.
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Good, because you’re facing an uphill battle getting that job requiring a law degree. It’s borderline offensive to tell unsuspecting undergrads that cloistering themselves away from the job market for three years at a high cost is somehow critical to finding a job that doesn’t require a law degree. More likely, your J.D. actually screws you between the three years of lost experience and the employer’s fear that you’re either (a) a f**k up for having a law degree and no law job or (b) about to ditch this job as soon as a legal position opens up. If you aren’t going to be a lawyer, don’t go to law school.
16. Strengthen Your Intellectual Stamina: Another one of those defenses that reduces to, “if you like school then go to law school, ’cause it’s like… super school and stuff.” It’s not. It’s just more school.
“To do it properly, you’ll be going to class and studying 12 hours a day, all week long,” [a recent law grad] said.
Nope. If you’re doing it properly, you won’t be doing any of those things.
17. Think Like a Lawyer… Duh: Yes. Again, a skill that only matters if you are, in fact, a lawyer.
18. Depend on Yourself: New ad campaign for LSAC, “Law School: In Case You Missed Out On Potty Training!”
19. Feel the Ambition: This one reads, “enjoy the fact that everyone around you are assholes.” Hurray!
20. Make a Difference: Sadly, law schools make it incredibly difficult for people to go out and make that difference. Skyrocketing tuition leaves many would-be do-gooders financially coerced out of the public sector just to make ends meet.
21. Know How to Pick Your Battles: If you believe this is a skill better taught by law professors than, say, playing poker for two hours, then I pity you.
22. Ease into the Real World: One of the most accurate items is also the last. Law school is only partially about becoming a lawyer and more about students lining the pockets of LSAC member schools for a three-year vacation from adulthood. While everyone else struggles to figure out life in the real world, law school promises — and sometimes delivers — a smooth transition from schooling to a high-paying job. Is a responsibility summer camp worth the price? That all depends on you. But LSAC would definitely like to have it both ways and convince students that law school is about being an aggressively purpose-driven and ambitious boiler room of real-world job experience that gently eases you into a real world where you’ll have superpowers that everyone fancies.
If you want to be a lawyer, and you’ve gotten an offer to pursue your education cheaply at a quality school, then go to law school. If that sentence is untrue in any way, then don’t go to law school. That’s really all there is to it. And it’s much shorter than a 22-reason listicle.
22 Reasons Why Going to Law School Is the Best Decision You’ll Ever Make [Huffington Post]