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When Law School makes sense

personalinfamy:

If you can get a full ride at a top 20 law school, then going to law school is worth it. You get a healthy dose of elitism, and the study of law allows you to endure any kind of writing, as legal writing is the worst kind of writing in the world.

Otherwise, it is a financially ridiculous move. Only works out if you want to delay adulthood for another 3 years. Which I definitely did.

Also, it turns out that public interest law is basically a myth, what with all the severe cutbacks in state spending. The only way to get one of those do-gooder jobs is basically through patronage and/or nepotism at this point, which seems to be a profoundly hypocritical state of affairs. I’m sure those jobs are emotionally satisfying, but they rely on a system that only deepens the very problems that public interest lawyers seek to alleviate. I therefore see all forms of public interest law as the velvet glove that covers the iron fist — providing a patina of legitimacy to a system of exploitation and coercion.

So unless your family is connected, you’ll go in wanting to police corporate fraud, and wind up having to represent corporations in order to pay off your loans. And it will take you a long time to pay off your loans. I believe the term is debt peonage.

Based on all of the foregoing, I have concluded that law school and the legal profession tends to transform liberals into either (a) conservatives or (b) marxists who pretend to be conservative. This is all a moot point anyway, because expressing political opinions in a sincere way is bad for your legal career.