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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 1903257" data-attributes="member: 5122">I'm not really sure what the job market is for the profession in general.  My firm hires only graduates in the top ten percent, generally, and lawyers with those grades can find work pretty much anywhere, anytime.14-hour days are pretty much the norm for an attorney on the partner track at a corporate firm.  The numbers will be different in various areas of the government or public interest, and they'll differ in different areas of the country, too.  A friend of mine from law school is a family law prosecutor in Kentucky, and she generally works a 40 hour week.I'm sure some graduates declare bankruptcy, but that's probably true from any student loans.One thing you didn't ask: From my experience, most lawyers do not like being lawyers.  From my own life, I'd guess fewer than five percent of my friends and colleagues would do it again, given the opportunity to go back in time.  If you only poll those who enjoyed law school (like me), the number pretty much hits zero.  (Law school and practice are nothing alike.)Keep in mind, though, that a law degree is good for more than just practicing law ... no matter how bright or logical you believe you are before attending law school, the experience will refine your ability to reason and articulate arguments.  It will also inevitably instill within you a disdain for those people who consider an "argument" and a "quarrel" to be the same thing, and for those people who are incapable of forming a coherent argument.</blockquote>

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