Law School/ Career Advice Forum

[yokismokescaleb]

Hi all,
My Stats:
Age: 22 (23 next month)
Major: Econ BSc (4th year)
LSAT: 169 (not a very good score for me, hoping to turn that into a 170+ next month)
GPA: at my school it's out of 9, but lets call it a 3.5-3.75 for now
School: Decent university in Canada (not top, but decent)
Factors:
1. I am founder/president of a non-profit that connects low income kids to free tutoring at my university campus, I handle about 30 volunteers, I am hoping to use that to my advantage for applications
2. I likely will not need to worry about student loans

I am hoping to go to the US for law school and stay there afterwards, I would really like to get out of Canada. My dream school right now is UCLA, but I will apply to a whole bunch of schools, my LSAT seems to be in the 75th percentile for some really good schools, and as I said I'm hoping to increase that score as well. I don't mind too much where in the US I go to school, I would love to be in the southwest, or even Oregon, but I need to consider the job market first.
My dream job is to work 40-60hours per week and make at least 75k out of school. I don't want to work in Big Law, I'm interested in criminal, immigration, tax, among others. I mainly just don't want to sell my soul after graduation to work in some meaningless corporate firm where I have to worry about getting 2000 billable hours a year etc, but I'm also willing to work more than the average person.
It's essentially going to take me 4 years between starting law school and landing a job anyway, and my plan B if I choose not to go to law school is to get a degree in software/electrical engineering in the US.
Please put aside the "why do you want to be a lawyer" stuff, I'm not worried about hating law, I'm worried about going to a T15-T25 US school and being underemployed or working for like 60k a year indefinitely.

MY QUESTION: In your opinion(s) Can I get close to my dream job situation graduating from UCLA, Berkley, Vandy, Cornell, Virginia, UoT etc. or should I move on and get a eng degree? I can see myself well in both positions.