What should I plan on doing to become a lawyer in the us? -

im currently a 15 year old living in Wales, i was looking for advice on the places i need to go and things i need to do in order to become a u.s lawyer. im thinking of doing my A levels, then university and then law school. but what do i do from there to acutally become a lawyer in the usa?

You need to pass a bar exam in the state in which you wish to practice law. After that, you can legally practice law, you will just have to find somewhere to work.

The best way to become a US lawyer is to attend an American ABA approved law school and then take the bar exam for the state you wish to practice in. If you go to law school in Wales or Britain, you can t just take the bar exam in America and then practice law here. To even take an American bar exam for a particular state, you have to have graduated from an accredited ABA school. As a graduate from a foreign law school, the ABA will probably require you to take American Constitutional law course, and some other American courses in order to be able to sit for the exam. I knew an American girl who went to law school in Ireland and then came back to America. She had to apply to transfer into an American law school and take an additional year s worth of courses before she could sit for the bar exam. I could be wrong, but America is an additional year of classroom study than in Britain because Britain has the apprenticeship thing and we don t have that per se. We are just encouraged to get internships while in law school to augment our studies and get job connections.