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Important advice about the collapsing employment situation

Posted November 27th, 2009 by Spike

With the job market hobbled, it is more important than ever for prospective law students to meet the requirements for admission to a top-quality law school. Because of the failure of the overall job market, law schools are seeing a surge of applications.

Law schools can be (and are) more fastidious about their precise law school requirements than they have ever been in recent history.

Simply stated, America’s law schools are turning out droves of new lawyers faster than the economy needs them. Therefore, the job market is saturated on a good day. And this is a aweful day.

When I graduated, during the late 1990s technology boom, which was a incredible day, the median starting salary for members of my class in electronic engineering was $50,000.00. Yes, this was ancient history. So, there was some real risk that I was about to spend 3 years of my life and every dime I owned and then some for a graduate education that was less valuable than the first degree that I already had. Fully a third of the licensed attorneys in Texas do something other than practice law. There just isn’t enough legal business to go around.

For every kid making $165,000.00 a year straight out of school, there are 10 wet-behind-the-ears lawyers making $40,000.00 per year. Now, if you have an English degree, you may here $40,000 per year and think, “Wow, that’s a huge step up!” But wait, that $40,000 per year is after you sink $100k in credit and lose the opportunity to make a living wage during the years that you are in law school. Going $100k into debt for a $40k/year job is not a good plan. You don’t need a business degree to see that this one is upside-down.

The law is two professions. If you’re not lucky, you will end up coming out of school to a $40k/year job (or none at all) with $100k in debt.

The difference between being well-prepared and turning your life into a living Hell is going to a well-ranked law school. The difference between getting into a well-ranked law school and having to accept a crappy law school is your scoring relative to the law school admission requirements. They are:

* Your LSAT score
* Your Undergraduate GPA
* Your Race
* Your Admissions Essays
* Your Letters of Recommendation
* Your Resume (this means everything else)
* Your string pulls

Now, there are some of these factors that you can, in fact, control. And there are some that you can’t control. Your goal needs to be to concentrate on the factors that you can adjust in a way that changes the outcome.

For advice on how to do just that, you’re welcome to visit: http://www.lawschoolrequiements.org.

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