KEY QUESTIONS
Before you choose LAW as your next career, you might want to consider these questions:
Financial
1. Is the cost of your tuition prohibitive to your desired lifestyle?
2. What is the expected salary range for this career?
3. If you have taken out student loans, can you afford to repay
them on your expected salary?
Specialization
1. Environmental Lawyer
2. Tax Lawyer
3. Family Lawyer
4. Security Lawyer
5. Litigation Lawyer
*There are more than these five specialties.
Work Life (Large firm)
1. If you work at a large firm, can you manage the long hours and grueling workload?
2. How do you feel about working with several supervising bosses (lawyers)?
3. Do you want to work in a conservative environment where business dress is the standard?
4. Can you manage the day to day stress of maintaining enough billable hours
Financial
1. Is the cost of your tuition prohibitive to your desired lifestyle?
2. What is the expected salary range for this career?
3. If you have taken out student loans, can you afford to repay
them on your expected salary?
Specialization
1. Environmental Lawyer
2. Tax Lawyer
3. Family Lawyer
4. Security Lawyer
5. Litigation Lawyer
*There are more than these five specialties.
Work Life (Large firm)
1. If you work at a large firm, can you manage the long hours and grueling workload?
2. How do you feel about working with several supervising bosses (lawyers)?
3. Do you want to work in a conservative environment where business dress is the standard?
4. Can you manage the day to day stress of maintaining enough billable hours
Work Life (Small firm)
1. If you work at a small firm, can you stay above the office politics?
2. Can you adjust to occasional late nights of work when it is needed by your boss?
3. Can you adjust to the expansive range of work needed, from making copies to drafting client depositions?
1. If you work at a small firm, can you stay above the office politics?
2. Can you adjust to occasional late nights of work when it is needed by your boss?
3. Can you adjust to the expansive range of work needed, from making copies to drafting client depositions?