I am 19 and in college. I am studying political science(big shock right?) but after the four year school, i want to go to law school. I figure that i should try to go as far as is possiable because this is one of the only chances that i have in my life to do this. First i was wondering, has anyone here actually went to law school? If so, then we can discuss and go from there.

I didn't, but one of my closest friends did. But my friend went to a radical law school in San Franciso that was geared more towards civil rights than towards corporate rights. My friend tried working for law firms, but ended up in a solo practice involving court-appointed appeals cases, and pro bono representation of indigent clients. Needless to say it has not been a financially profitable practice, but it has been exceedingly gratifying emotionally.

I resisted attempts to convince me to go to law school because of my personal experience with our just-us system. I've seen U.S. Attorneys suborn perjury, tamper with transcripts, withhold evidence, and pull just about every other dirty trick in the book. I've watched judges twist and bend the law so as to penalize innocents and reward the guilty. And lately I've watched Bushco change the laws and the make-up of the courts so that they've become even more biased in favor of corporations and against human rights.

And I've read a few things written by people who said that their law school education was mind-numbing. We have an adversarial system in which what matters is winning by any means possible, with no regard whatseover to who's right and who's wrong.

I have a lot of respect for civil rights lawyers and lawyers like John Edwards who've gone up against the corporatocracy and won, but I don't have much respect for the law as we know it in this country today.

If you have the heart and the guts, more power to you. But using their rules on their turf to oppose corporations is a David vs. Goliath scenario and you'd better be damned good with your slingshot.

I commend you on your decision Jack, and though the future may seem a long ways off,
it's not and before you know it you'll be 47.

Exactly the same age my sister is now, and she will graduate in 2 weeks!



However, it is safe to say it will never get any easier than it is right now, so do it now!