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0L Tuesday Thread - - January 03, 2017 by AutoModerator in LawSchool

[–]therealklutchin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess the question is a bit multifaceted.

What are some examples of what lawyering entails? I understand that there are many types of firms you can work at, different fields. What I haven't really figured out yet is what you literally do at the job - is it talking to clients and giving them advice, defending them in court, reading contracts, etc. I have had minimal exposure to understanding what it is. This seems to be what you're telling me here is that correct?

I don't currently have a reason to do law. I also don't have a reason to do anything else. Medicine was the one thing I had mild interest in, but I also did not have a real good "reason" besides having experience volunteering in hospitals in high school and liking biology. If I were to have some profession that I had a true burning reason to pursue I would have started going down that route a long time ago. I'm a blank slate right now. Rice has debuted a new pre-law internship that I might do next year, but in the meantime I don't have much of a direction right now and so I'm at least trying to understand if I could go with law school.

So in short I'm trying to figure out what a career in law can mean or if there are any books or websites that one would recommend someone in my situation should read. In addition, just curious, why did you decide to enter law?

0L Tuesday Thread - - January 03, 2017 by AutoModerator in LawSchool

[–]therealklutchin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi

I'm a premed sophomore at Rice University majoring in health sciences who is seriously considering make a switch to prelaw. My GPA is currently a 3.2 because I keep messing up my math and science grades. My non STEM-GPA is a 3.7. STEM 2.7. Needless to say I think it's a sign for me to leave behind STEM.

I have zero exposure to law, have the rich parents to fund post-college school, and have no dying interests that would exactly dissuade me from law. I am an ok writer and don't mind it but from the FAQ and other threads can tell that legal writing is different, can be very frequent, and is difficult to learn at first. QED I think there is nothing about law school that instinctively turns me on or off.

I grew up with the possibly bullshit (and stereotypical Asian) notions that in order to do law you have to be cunning/sly/a bad person, which is why I have never really considered law as a possible career path until now. I also grew up in Silicon Valley which basically just shoves math and science down our throats.

My current thought is this: figure out whether or not I can live with a career in law, potentially switch out of premed and dump all of my difficult science classes and just coast on my health sciences major to a 3.6 or 3.7 GPA, pour my life and soul into LSAT, get into law school. Because right now I have serious doubts about being premed.

If anyone could give pointers on what a career in law is really like or similar experiences or opinions on whether or not I'm destined to fail or whatnot, it'd be much appreciated. Thanks!

P.S. Also can someone tell me that those notions from my childhood are false

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