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Tara Kachaturoff of TeachMeLaw Radio and I spoke recently whether law school is still a viable option given the current and continuing economic situation.
My answer is YES! Read this portion of our interview transcript to learn why.
Tara: Is going to law school still a viable or a valuable option given that the economy is in a contraction mode right now? And there are lawyers unemployed from coast to coast? What are your thoughts on that? From your perspective of getting that background, I’d like to go right now. I just don’t have time. But I love the learning and the thought process.
What it’s going to teach me and how to approach problem solving, but what are your thoughts on this?
Jessica: Law school will always be viable career option and a viable training. I don’t want to call it training because it’s really not what it is. It’s so much more than that. Anybody that goes to law school with a goal in mind whatever that goal may be, so long it’s there and even that’s a little bit too general.
But I will forever be proud to be a lawyer. It’s the way that you’re taught to learn and that’s also like your first day of law school. You’re going to be learning a new language. That didn’t mean anything to me until day two when you don’t know what everybody’s talking about. And learning to learn in a new way and as an adult because by the time you’ve graduated college, you should be an adult when you enter your professional career.
Your professional career really does begin day one of law school, and many people don’t realize that. The people that you’re in your classes with, you should already be considering your colleagues.
Tara: Right.
Jessica: I think that’s a lot easier now with social media and the connections that you’re able to make but really the way that your brain changes when you’re in law school can’t ever be looked at as a negative.
Thank you Casting Words for this transcript.
