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Attention all lawyers i need your help!?

I was just wondering if me getting my degree in paralegal would help prepare me for law school. I was also wondering any suggustions on different jobs one could get after law school.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    In law school, skills in critical thinking, writing, and debate are highly valued, and I'm not sure if you practice these skills in a paralegal degree. You can pretty much major whatever you want for your undergraduate degree because your law school admission is almost entirely based on your LSAT score. So I would recommend finding a major you enjoy that provides some opportunity to develop the aforementioned skills. Law schools also look for diversity, so an unusual major can sometimes help you.

    Depending on your interest and whether you pass the BAR or not, you can practice law in the public or private sector, become a paralegal (an option if you don't pass the BAR), teach (if you can publish ... a lot), or pretty much do anything else you want (it's very easy for a lawyer to become a real estate agent in the state of California). If you don't want to practice law, there are books out there that tell you all the different things you could do.

    Source(s): I'm married to a lawyer and we hang out with his law school buddies and ex-firm buddies ... a lot.
  • 1 decade ago

    A legal assistant or paralegal is a person, qualified by education, training or work experience who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible.

    Also, A Paralegal is a person, qualified through education, training or work experience to perform substantive legal work that requires knowledge of legal concepts and is customarily, but not exclusively, performed by a lawyer. This person may be retained or employed by a lawyer, law office, governmental agency or other entity or may be authorized by administrative, statutory or court authority to perform this work. Substantive shall mean work requiring recognition, evaluation, organization, analysis, and communication of relevant facts and legal concepts.

    In summary you will do all the legal research, have a good understanding of all legal concepts, like tort, contracts, etc., and have the capacity to decipher all the legal paperwork, and jargon. I would say that it would be a great stepping stone for entering legal profession, as an attorney.

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