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I'm assuming the easiest areas of practice in ShitLaw include Personal Injury, Family, and Estate Planning. Anything else?

birdlaw

Space law.

Lawl Law.

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IBR, bankruptcy, and welfare law.

Your mom law

Judge Judy law

Sure, negligence and PI work is "easy" to set up a claim... But say hello to jurisdictional walls on recovery that virtually every state in the country has put up: mandatory arbitration, tort reform, insurance caps, etc.

nickb285 wrote:International sports law.

I actually know someone who does this.

Politics.

Jimbo_Jones wrote:Your mom law

TCR, TSO EASY

The Platypus wrote:Judge Judy law

Juggs Judy Law

Anyone have any real suggestions?

barestin wrote:Anyone have any real suggestions?

None of the areas you listed are necessarily "easy." PI law is not bad if the firm is only going after settlements, but PI trials are no joke. The attorney has to be a skilled litigator.

Family law is definitely not easy. Not only do you have to deal with the emotional peculiarities of clients, but family law is complex and wide ranging. Family law attornies should be familiar with everything from prenups, child custody to complex tax issues.

Estate planning also involves a wide range of law and potentially complex tax issues.

Real estate closings and bill collection are generally not terribly difficult.

Your assumptions are flawed

If there was a such thing as an "easy" area of law that paid money, there would be 20,000 people fighting you for that job.

Collections law, or creditor's rights, comes to mind. A skilled monkey could do at least 90% of the work.

I.P. Daly wrote:Estate planning also involves a wide range of law and potentially complex tax issues.

I'll second that from experience - at the high net worth end, there are some pretty sophisticated financial products that rely on any of a number of legal technicalities that are can be particularly attractive, but may rely on flawed analysis (just google Frozen Cash Value life insurance and see if you can make heads or tails out of it).

Proper estate planning requires knowledge of trust law, inheritance law, insurance law, tax law, and more. Not only that, you need familiarity with laws in different states (and possibly different countries) and how to take advantage of the most favorable regulations.

Some partners become rainmakers and take on more and more ambitious and complex matters and others become more and more efficient at doing associate-level work. For instance, I know a well-paid partner who just reviews leases, that's it. But she reviews a 60 page lease in about 10 minutes without ever making a mistake or missing anything. It's savant-ish eeriness. Her output equals the output of the 5 associates in the group, but she also checks their work. She says her job is easy and she never seems stressed.

So I think you can get really, really efficient (so efficient it doesn't make sense to ask you to take on more responsibility) at doing associate-level work and then your job will eventually become easy.

dingbat wrote:

I.P. Daly wrote:Estate planning also involves a wide range of law and potentially complex tax issues.

I'll second that from experience - at the high net worth end, there are some pretty sophisticated financial products that rely on any of a number of legal technicalities that are can be particularly attractive, but may rely on flawed analysis (just google Frozen Cash Value life insurance and see if you can make heads or tails out of it).

Proper estate planning requires knowledge of trust law, inheritance law, insurance law, tax law, and more. Not only that, you need familiarity with laws in different states (and possibly different countries) and how to take advantage of the most favorable regulations.

Not to mention that will, trust, and estate law is currently evolving pretty rapidly. It's also one of the legal areas with most malpractice lawsuits, suggesting it is more complex than you might think.

ph14 wrote:

dingbat wrote:

I.P. Daly wrote:Estate planning also involves a wide range of law and potentially complex tax issues.

I'll second that from experience - at the high net worth end, there are some pretty sophisticated financial products that rely on any of a number of legal technicalities that are can be particularly attractive, but may rely on flawed analysis (just google Frozen Cash Value life insurance and see if you can make heads or tails out of it).

Proper estate planning requires knowledge of trust law, inheritance law, insurance law, tax law, and more. Not only that, you need familiarity with laws in different states (and possibly different countries) and how to take advantage of the most favorable regulations.

Not to mention that will, trust, and estate law is currently evolving pretty rapidly. It's also one of the legal areas with most malpractice lawsuits, suggesting it is more complex than you might think.

Yea, estate planning can be incredibly complex. Anybody saying otherwise does not know what they are talking about.

estate planners need advanced study in Tax, most young attorneys in this field are expected to have an LLM

I think from a legal standpoint, Divorce law is probably not very complicated with almost all states having no-fault, but from an emotional/stress level standpoint, it's likely to be very taxing.

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barestin wrote:Anyone have any real suggestions?

Your question doesn't make much sense. To the extent it does make sense, you're asking the wrong question.