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>You're not going to have the skills to practice successfully on your own immediately after you come out of law school. You will have to spend several years toiling away for someone else, whether it be the government or as an associate at a private practice, before you can go out on your own.

everyone says this yet every year freshly graduated lawyers hang a shingle and go out on their own. they aren't sued into oblivion for malpractice, they aren't summarily disbarred, they aren't tarred and feathered and exiled.

>Also standard advice about law school: Don't bother unless you get into a T14 school. There are plenty of people who take out $250k in student loan debt for their law degree from a middling state school only to end up with a 60hr/wk $80k/yr job at an insurance company offering settlements (or, worse, demanding settlements from insurance firms)

i want to do solo general practice in my rural hometown. i don't care about working big law or working at an existing firm. i currently have a corporate job. i don't want another corporate job. i worked at a professional services firm before. i don't want to work at another professional services firm.

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should i go to law school? i currently make $120k and wfh but i want to make $120k and work for myself and not a big jewish corporation.