What type of jobs could you get out of law school?


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Keyana asked:


I was just looking around at different jobs in the law field and saw that most of them require working in the field of law for so many years. So for a person that is just getting out of law school, what type of job would they be able to get in the legal field?

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4 Responses to “What type of jobs could you get out of law school?”

  1. Doctor Deth Says:
    November 17th, 2009 at 11:44 pm

    lawyer is pretty much it - you wouldn’t be qualified for much else - certainly nothing that would make enough to put a dent in $100,000 of law school loans Doctor Deth

  2. kapn Says:
    November 21st, 2009 at 10:32 am

    None…….

    Advice from another out of work Attorney who can’t pay his student loans…..

    Warning! Jobs in the field of Law are drying up FAST!! This is not a good field to invest time and/or money into. This is a SHRINKING vocational field. Many reasons. Many people today think they can do their own legal work, thanks to the Internet. We simply have WAY TOO MANY Legal Professionals - we have an absolute GLUT!! (”Legal Professionals” includes, but is not limited to: Attorneys/Lawyers, Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc)

    Regarding being a Paralegal: Paralegals can be found in many types of businesses. Employers (usually law firms) in the field of Law want employees with BACHELORS degrees from traditional universities/colleges. Those “certificates” you sometimes see advertised, aren’t worth the paper they are printed on - they are generally SCAMS.

    Even IF you finish law school, you won’t be able to find a job when you are done. Since this vocational field is shrinking, many new attorneys/lawyers are, themselves, having to work “down” as Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc, to simply try to keep some of THEIR bills paid that the job market/economy is SATURATED with WAY TOO MANY Legal Professionals. Instead the schools will feed you a fairytale and will LIE to you. The root of the problem is we have too many law schools. We are in a recession, and the schools are fighting for their own survival - they will tell students ANYTHING to get to the students’ money. (Which is why they won’t tell you the truth about the job market for the field of Law.) AND these schools continue to recruit and churn out even MORE Legal Professionals………….

    If you don’t believe me, then just do a SEARCH here on Yahoo Answers to see what other posters are saying about the current status of the field of Law.

    In the book “So You Want to be a Lawyer? by Marianne Calabrese and susanne Calabrese (ISBN 0-88391-136-1): “The United States has more lawyers than any other country in the world. About 38,000 students graduate EACH YEAR from 200 law schools in the United States. The competition is very keen for jobs and clients.”

    If you want a JOB when you are done with your studies, consider and look into the field of >>>HEALTHCARE! kapn

  3. Barricade Says:
    November 22nd, 2009 at 6:11 am

    For the top 5-10 percent of the class, they receive offers after year 2 or early in year 3. They are set at either a big firm or a prestigious judicial clerkship. Others in the class usually find jobs at mid-sized or small/solo firms. But a significant number are displaced/unemployed/undecided. There simply aren’t enough “attorney jobs” to sustain the droves of graduates each year. If you want quick money, get into temp or contract work. The jobs are tedious and un-fulfilling, but the wages should help with the student loan debt and provide a decent standard of living. The experience is hardly a resume builder and more of a filler for resume gaps. In a large firm, the contract or temp attorneys are often ignored or degraded. It’s the lowest position on the attorney totem pole, but in this market, who could blame you for accepting those types of positions? Barricade

  4. mailaccount63 Says:
    November 22nd, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    Not much in this job market. Listen to previous posters - especially “kapn”. mailaccount63

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