re: Need advice from O-T lawyers

Also the Lipitor and blood thinners keep the old guard alive longer. They need the young blood to do their work so they can support their unemployed lawyer children while still making payments on some stupid purchase they made during the 90's. If you want to be a mushroom (i.e. Kept in the dark and fed shite doing somebody's job for them) then by all means go to law school.

My advice follows. Take it for what it is worth. I've been practicing for decades in several states, and I am annually involved in hiring lawyers:

1. The market in Louisiana and in many other places is oversupplied.

2. There are never enough good lawyers.

3. You sound like you are looking for an educational experience, not for a career. If so, I'd discourage you from law school.

4. Most practicing lawyers are unhappy. Many are struggling to make a living. Even lawyers who love it (like me) will tell you that it is sometimes a brutal way to make a living.

5. If you really wanted to be a lawyer, rather than playing at school for another few years, you'd probably already know it.

6. You have a high GPA and a pretty good LSAT score. That does not mean you will be successful in law school or in practice.

7. What is your end game? What kind of law would you like to practice? If you don't know that, then go dabble in something else.

8. It's hard to say who you are based on a hundred words in a post. But I can tell you I have met practicing lawyers who would have written something like you wrote. None of them made it. None of them was worth a damn at it, in fact.

You can read this any way you want. Maybe I am just a cranky old fart yelling at you to get off my lawn. Reading your post, though, I'd say you should run screaming away from law school.

I'm currently sipping coffee and settling in to spend a couple hours working on a brief, if that sounds appealing to you.

I'm renewing a motion for sanctions baws

Not to disagree much with what Holden said, but I know plenty of folks, myself included, who didn't have a clear path determined and are managing alright. We grumble about law, but we don't hate it. We're not struggling to put food on the table.

But so much of this depends on your circumstances. The legal market in Atlanta right now isn't horrible. It's not 2006, but it's not 2009 either. Going to a big regional or national law school, doing well, and planning to practice in a larger area is going to provide you with considerably more flexibility.

I'm not telling you to do that, and there are downsides to those things, but it does change how I'd tell people to view law school and the prospects of a legal career. In other words, I think it's great if you have a strong idea of what you want to practice. But it becomes far more essential if you're going to a smaller law school or planning to work in a smaller area. You're not going to shoot for PI and settle on ERISA work if you're locked in to working in Auburn, Alabama.

Neither. Go for environmental engineering.

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Does my Master of Philosophy improve my resume?

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Probably not.

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Does admissions look at my graduate GPA?

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I think so.

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Should I invest in tutoring for the LSAT? 

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Given your two practice scores, you might can swing it without tutoring, but I think it's generally worth it. If you can improve your LSAT even two points to over 170 you'll be golden.

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'm curious as to what the job market is like for law school grads

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Seems like it isn't bad. A lot of people quit going in the last five or so years. Depends on the city and region though.

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is law school worth it if I do not attend one of the top schools in the country

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If you want to be a lawyer, yes. If you want to be rich, no. If you want a decent paycheck, yes, but only if you do well in your class and you go to a school in a region that has decent economic activity.