What are the job prospects for lawyers? There seems to be a lot of competition & that kind of worries me.?

Guinness

I graduated law school in 1999, made Law Review, at Hofstra Law, what I honestly consider to be a mid-level law school. Most of the members in my graduating class obtained jobs, but they were not high-paying. Nearly half of them have stopped working in the law field, including myself. I made very good money, but the job was unbelievably stressful and unfulfilling. HOWEVER, there are a lot of other jobs or avenues one can pursue after law school. You can go for your LLM, [one more year of school] and teach Law, become a consultant, or work "in house" for large corporations, just some examples.

There is A HUGE amount of competition. And a VERY LARGE proportion of the jobs available to mid level grads are very, to say the least, unglamorous. If you love the law and have a unique interest that you can concentrate your third year studies on, I would not be dissuaded. Good luck!

legitamate2000

My daughter wants to be a lawyer. Her fathers a lawyer and her God father is a lawyer. Attorney's are just like any thing else in this world. How much you make is going to depend on how good you are at it. Go the extra mile and you'll be fine in that field. Good luck.

redvelvetflames4ever

Fact. The field is overly saturated. Unless you graduate from a top tier law school preferably ranking in the top 10; your daddy, mommy, or other close relative is an established attorney; or any other type of serious connection -- it is very difficult.

If you type in your search engine The Occupational Outlook Handbook 2006-2007 edition. Click on "lawyers" and it will give you the present statistics.

Josalynn

you shoul do a city serch. I d try the 2007 occupation outlook book, it comes out every tear and it lets you know the job prospects . Also the particular type of juris studies you go in to that all is variable in larger cities as well.

tortfeasor21913

I would get into the compliance arena. its a growing field. its basically working for companies and making sure they are adhearing to state and federal regulations. more and more organizations are adding compliance departments as a proactive measure to prevent things like enron and martha stuart.
so look at insurance companies and banks, they are compliance heavy.

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