would enlisting have any effect on getting a jag intership Forum

[Anonymous User]

title says it all, and any difference between branches?

[johndhi]

this is a scary and awful idea... wouldn't that mean you have to be in the forces for a bunch of years?

[3L Student]

Not if you're already in law school. It will help if you were enlisted before school, just because it shows your interest/dedication to the military. But just about everyone that gets in does law school and then immediately enters into the JAG corps after passing the bar.

[Anonymous User]

Not if you're already in law school. It will help if you were enlisted before school, just because it shows your interest/dedication to the military. But just about everyone that gets in does law school and then immediately enters into the JAG corps after passing the bar.

this is a scary and awful idea... wouldn't that mean you have to be in the forces for a bunch of years?

it's not that scary, it's only a four year commitment, and you get gauranteed trial experience in your first two years, and 60 grand for student loans, plus you make about 60-75k a year after bonuses and allowances

Plus you're a government employee with military law experience. It would make getting a federal job very easy after the four years are up.

I guess I'll just go ahead and fill out the apps then, thanks for the info

[GertrudePerkins]

You can't be an enlisted JAG -- JAGs are by definition officers. As someone else noted, having been enlisted in the past would probably make you a more attractive JAG candidate, but if you're currently in law school, enlisting would be a really weird and tortuous (also torturous) way of trying to become a JAG. Are you going to enlist as a paralegal?