When are you too told for law school? - Page 3

eviljeff · #21 10-30-2005, 12:50 PM

many of my fellow 1Ls are 25+ and they still go out with us. then there's some 35+'s that do their own thing. there's a student group called Older and Wiser Law students (OWL), but I've never checked it out.

from what I've gathered, most kids here did not go straight through from undergrad.

plenty of Canadians here too. no one really notices until they bust out the poutine.

Dominic · #22 10-30-2005, 03:01 PM

my writing partner decided to go to law school at age 36...he's now 41 and trying huge corporate cases in court. If you have the drive to do it, why not go for it?

Colonel Kataffy · #23 10-31-2005, 03:28 AM

You are very much not too old for Law School. Honestly, when I opened this, I thought you were going to be 40 or something. Seriously, get thee to law school.

KneeCo · #24 10-31-2005, 03:43 AM

I may be going to law school in the fall, when researching schools I saw that at one I applied to the average age of students is 29.

mason55 · #25 10-31-2005, 04:20 AM

wow. i feel like a retard. i took the LSAT when I was 20 (not posting my score because i don't want this to turn into a dick swinging contest [if i had $20 every time i wrote that in OOT...]).

anyways. I thought I was getting too old at 22. glad to know i'm not. now if only i hadn't gotten arrested for fighting some [censored] at Denny's tonight...

#26 10-31-2005, 04:36 AM

My uncle was a pharmicist for years and years. About 10 years ago he decided he wanted to be a lawyer. So he went to law school and graduated. Now he practices law.

MrMon · #27 10-31-2005, 04:40 AM

My wife went back to law school at 29, graduated at 33 and made partner at Big Law at 41. Stick a couple of kids in there as well. So you're not too old.

Also, she now does the interviewing at her old law school to recruit the newbies. Those students who are older and have some meat on their resumes often have a leg up on those who went straight through. Real world experience in something other than law is valued.

Just remember, no one is going to trust you with anything really important until you're 40. It really is true, plus or minus a few years.

lastsamurai · #28 10-31-2005, 04:42 AM

yeah...25 is a good age...i am 35 years old now trust me...as you get older you lose more brain cells!

mason55 · #29 10-31-2005, 04:56 AM

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