Billionaire Cautions That Law School Is Great -- For Accumulating Debt

If you're considering law school, heed this warning.

Game of LoansOf course, you get a lot out of law school — you learn a lot — but the most you get out of law school is debt.

— Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, explaining during “Explore GS,” a worldwide townhall-style speaker series for summer interns at the firm, that while he started his career as a lawyer, it simply wasn’t meant to be. Blankfein graduated from Harvard Law and worked as a lawyer before joining Goldman Sachs.


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