re: For future lawyers

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Unfortunately, at least with respect to the current climate, the most intellectually stimulating and highest-paying jobs for lawyers are outside of the scope of traditional law practice. I am thrilled about this personally. I call this unfortunate, though, because the vast majority of law students are either oblivious to this fact, in denial, or have no other area of competency outside of law practice (however, even this is a stretch as law school hardly makes one "competent" enough to practice law).

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i both agree and disagree. There are plenty of options a law degree gives you in different managerial capacities.

It also creates a lot of hurdles in breaking into such positions. I think in order to capitalize on such opportunities, most of the time you have to be considered X first, lawyer second.

That being said, tons of CEOs are lawyers. There was a story the ABA did not too long ago, CEO Esq. Interesting read.