Top 1/3 at Top 25, Free Ride - Need Advice Forum

[Ravenclaw23]

thanks for the advice.

[shump92]

Any way you could get your school to give you a leave of absence? I hesitate to say you should jump to dropping out. Law school is not supposed to be too enjoyable, but your disappointment over the summer is not a good sign. With a leave of absence you could see what your real alternative is to law school and see how that works for you.

[CanadianWolf]

FWIW the second & third years of law school are very different than the first year.

[CanadianWolf]

No need to participate on a secondary law journal if the journal's focus is not of interest to you & you dislike legal writing. Also, take some time to enjoy law school as the second & third years are much easier typically than the first year. Iowa has a nice campus with a lot of activities. Try working/taking credits in a law school clinic. Iowa law should permit you to take credits outside of the law school in another graduate school if you need a change.

[moreheesh]

Top 1/3'er and free rider here. Your story sounds like mine except I didn't dream of becoming a lawyer when I was young, so I think this is why the fact you are hating law school right now is aggravating you so much more.

Bottomline: You're going to regret dropping out of law school, unless you have some once-in-a-lifetime opportunity presented to you, which doesn't seem to be the case here. Become a lawyer and say F*** the law when it's done. I hated everything about my law school, and barely went to any classes as 2L/3L (to the point that people would constantly ask me where I've been, and it got tedious). I would study for about 5 days over the course of the semester for a , take the exam, and be at the curve. A grand total of ONE of my professors was inspiring, and I'm glad I had them during my first semester of 1L year otherwise I would've been 10X more likely to drop out.

My advice: Don't do the journal. It will piss you off more. Treat law school like an extended vacation. Stay in school (meaning pass your exams), get a good-paying job with your grades, and pass the bar. The fact that you are not super peppy about law school will probably work to your advantage in job interviews, because on average, other lawyers get that.

It's only 2 years which is a blink of an eye all things considered. I doubt you will have such a hard time getting the job that you had before. You have good references right? That's all that matters in careers where you don't absolutely have to have a LICENSE to practice. If someone asked me a sideways question about why I'm not practicing law anymore even though I have a JD I would tell them a) they're retarded and b) that there are many lawyers that don't practice law who kill it in their field (politics, business, entertainment, the arts).

[maile]

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[worldtraveler]

If you love writing, you may want to stay. There are attorneys whose only jobs are to write reports. I just finished a consulting job writing a report. There are a lot of other kinds of legal writing other than what LRW teaches you.

What would be your career options if you left?