Save up. Aside from it being frightfully expensive, you need to be a voracious reader and know how to present yourself well (is there a debate squad in your school?)
1. Read, read, read. Everything you can. 2. Don t forget to learn as much science as you can - very helpful later in understanding and crossing experts; 3. Make sure you understand English (read the classics) and learn how to write clearly and to frame an argument. 4. When you re in college, take a logic course. In law, much of what you do will be arguing by analogy and using syllogisms. Good luck.
Figured I should way in here as I am a prosecutor who loves her job and can afford living independently and paying my student loans. It is possible, not easy, but don t go loan crazy (as a lot of young people have done because student loans were so easy to get prior to the current economy). Go to college first. Means get a good SAT or ACT score or have something that will get you accepted to college. A lot of colleges have pre-law programs, but get a bachelor s degree in something you enjoy. Any degree from engineering to philosophy is fine for law school. Focus on your GPA and the LSAT. About your junior year start studying for the LSAT, especially since some schools give scholarships for high LSAT scores. Start looking at law schools around your junior year of college as well. Don t only go for top 100 law schools as they are more expensive and while they may get your foot in the door, it is performance that keeps a job and you will be in the same place as a Harvard grad in five years if you are really good at what you do. Work your way through school to help ease the loan crunch. Stick with federal instead of private loans if possible. Travel abroad to study if possible. You want to be well rounded and bring something unique to law school. Do extracurriculars to make yourself stand out. Get involved in local legal stuff or something like that in college to show you dedication. Biggest thing is explore a lot of areas of law and find out what you want to do. I didn t even think about criminal law until my last year of law school and now I can t imagine doing anything else. And yes I have large debt due to law school, but I can spend the next 25 years paying it off and invest my money wisely between now and then. Even as a public servant, I can afford my rent, my car, and my loans no problem and still have spending money. I can t go crazy, but I am happy...and in the long run I don t think I would be happy if I were the type to go crazy with money no matter how much I made. It is all in how you plan and handle surprises.
Stop eating and learn to like living with your parents. The truth of the matter is that there is a enormous glut of lawyers. Many cannot get jobs. Even more cannot get jobs that allow them to pay off their student loans and live independently. College is expensive. Law school is even more expensive - even low ranked law schools. By the time you re ready to go, both will be even more expensive. The only jobs that will allow you to pay your loans and live are Big Law jobs. However, Big Law prefers to hire from Tier I schools. Plus, Big Law has started outsourcing a lot of legal work to India. And major US corporations who are the usual clients of big law firms, have begun setting up law departments in India. All this makes for fewer jobs for US law school graduates. Law school is insanely expense and law is a pretty bad bet if you want to make a living. Plus, most lawyers are wildly unhappy with their choice of career. My advice for your future is to do as well as possible in high school so you can get into the best college you can afford. Major in something that will get you a paying job when you graduate. If you still want to go to law school, your undergraduate degree will not matter. Your grades and your LSAT score will make or break you. Good luck.
Just start looking for a good law school you want to attend (be realistic in your choice) and look at their requirements for getting in. Most schools require you come with a bachelors degree, so you should also pick a degree you want, a majority of law schools however (check first to be sure though!) don t require a degree in any legal field to begin with, just any bachelors degree, so pick something you WANT to do.
Many students who are in law school have their degree in English. An English degree helps students learn how to speak correctly. What you can consider doing is major in English and minor in Speech Communications. That way you will know how to talk to people and learn what to say to people.
First you have to learn to tell a lie with a Straight face, in court the only person that don t have to tell the truth is the lawyer.
good nights sleep planned planned out and a good breakfast but just have fun and be focused firm but fear like Randy Jackson yah know. before you become a jugde you have too be a lawyer so retty much your doing good.great.grand.
quot;How to prepare for being a lawyer?quot; - Shoot yourself.
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