Tired Entrepreneur Thinking About Law School
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 1:03 pm
Hi All -
Hopefully I'll be more than a one time poster, and become an asset to your community but hey I can not guarantee it so take your chances or shots as they may be.
Here is my situation, I'm, gulp, middle aged, have a useless college degree from the California UC system thats twenty years old, and thinking it is time to reinvent myself. Over the years I have built, operated, sold, consulted for, or failed out of a great number different startup companies, I've done well six figure incomes for lots of years. I have tired of having to think up the next big thing and was looking at maybe throwing my hat in the legal ring or at least as a consultant with legal training and a law license.
I have spent quite a few years paying attorneys, have had multiple on staff at times, been through enough legal proceedings to know I do not want to be in a courtroom, I have no interest in the Biglaw route, I am looking to be more of an advisor or point of representation for interesting people and businesses and thinking that a JD may be a better route than an MBA.
Of course there will be bias here as this is a law focused community, but what I am wondering is what some of the folks here think about this route and of course the JD vs the MBA, the old man going to law school, Are you a mid life crisis law student, etc ... I am well aware that TV lawyer show lifestyles are not what you end up with when going this route.
I am not trying to start a flamewar or otherwise just tiring to crowd-source a collective pool of people actively involved in legal fields and those working their way through it.
Thanks for the time and thoughts,
whywhy
Hopefully I'll be more than a one time poster, and become an asset to your community but hey I can not guarantee it so take your chances or shots as they may be.
Here is my situation, I'm, gulp, middle aged, have a useless college degree from the California UC system thats twenty years old, and thinking it is time to reinvent myself. Over the years I have built, operated, sold, consulted for, or failed out of a great number different startup companies, I've done well six figure incomes for lots of years. I have tired of having to think up the next big thing and was looking at maybe throwing my hat in the legal ring or at least as a consultant with legal training and a law license.
I have spent quite a few years paying attorneys, have had multiple on staff at times, been through enough legal proceedings to know I do not want to be in a courtroom, I have no interest in the Biglaw route, I am looking to be more of an advisor or point of representation for interesting people and businesses and thinking that a JD may be a better route than an MBA.
Of course there will be bias here as this is a law focused community, but what I am wondering is what some of the folks here think about this route and of course the JD vs the MBA, the old man going to law school, Are you a mid life crisis law student, etc ... I am well aware that TV lawyer show lifestyles are not what you end up with when going this route.
I am not trying to start a flamewar or otherwise just tiring to crowd-source a collective pool of people actively involved in legal fields and those working their way through it.
Thanks for the time and thoughts,
whywhy