| Working Professionals Thinking About A Law Degree | | | | the law schools you're interested in applying to and |
| Should Start Saving ASAP | | | | see if you can meet with or at least contact students |
| If you're a working professional just beginning to | | | | who have already made the transition from being a |
| contemplate getting a law degree, you may not be | | | | working professional to being a law school student. |
| aware that law students are not allowed to work | | | | Doing what you can before you enter law school to |
| while attending law school. Of course, if a degree in | | | | prepare yourself for the extremely different culture will |
| law is what is best for you, you cannot let your inability | | | | help you immensely once you enter your law program. |
| to work stand between you and your coveted Juris | | | | Working Professionals Thinking About A Law Degree |
| Doctorate. What you can and should do is develop a | | | | Should Think About How They'll Use It |
| saving strategy while you are still a working | | | | Maybe you're a paralegal and you're considering |
| professional that will enable you to attend law school | | | | undertaking a law degree as a logical next step in your |
| and uphold your obligation to not hold outside | | | | career path. If this is the type of situation you are in as |
| employment while you do so. | | | | a working professional, then you probably already |
| Working Professionals Thinking About A Law Degree | | | | have plans for what you'll do with your law degree, |
| Should Prepare For A Seismic Shift in Lifestyle | | | | and are in the happy situation of having many |
| Once you have your savings plan in place and your | | | | transferable skills from your professional life that you |
| application process underway, you should prepare | | | | can bring into your new life as a law school student. |
| yourself for the extremely different environment of | | | | But what if you are a working professional who is |
| law school. Some of the skills you've developed as a | | | | contemplating applying to and attending law school and |
| working professional will still apply, of course. If you are | | | | you are in a field totally unrelated to the practice of |
| blessed with great time management skills, they will be | | | | law? While second and third careers are becoming |
| a great boon to you in the demanding years of law | | | | more and more common and you should not give up |
| school, where you can expect to be overwhelmed | | | | on your desire to be a lawyer even if law is unrelated |
| with more work than you can hope to get done. If you | | | | to your current profession, you should devote some |
| have not been blessed with such skills, now is the time | | | | time before law school to thinking about what you will |
| to start cultivating them -- before you hit the law | | | | do with your law degree once you get it. |
| school campus. You might also want to reach out to | | | | |