Pre-Law Advice

In 2 weeks many of you will face the bar exam: if you bought my books and prepared for it as I advise you should pass.

If instead you are merely considering law school may I dissuade you?

Law school is expensive and probably not worth it. I wound up falling deeply in love with law (because I was always in love with justice) but was bitterly disappointed to have an exact map of injustice in this world.

Honestly if you are unsure whether to go to law school: don’t. There is currently an over-supply of law teachers and law students. Defaulting into law because “good with words bad with math and doesn’t like blood” is a really bad way to go.

I am a polyglot, with scores of legal publications: I do love it but it was an acquired taste. Anything worth doing is worth over-doing.

Most law students and the more successful ones are uncreative, but disciplined and organized, and are terribly conformist. There are exceptions but they are exceptional.