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What can I do in high school to become a successful lawyer?

I really want to major in criminal law. I know that it will be really hard and a lot of work but I'm determined to be able to make a difference in people's lives. But I know that it is a tough and competitive field and I was wondering what I could do in high school to get ahead and be accepted into a good University, and then later on, Law school.
(Besides the obvious such as getting good scores on my LSATs).
Thanks so much for the help!


    

prosey
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Debate Team-hands down the best experience.
Get great grades in social studies and civics classes and find summer work at a law firm or in the court system. get in touch with a judge and let that person know that you are looking for a mentor. Also find a lawyer who went to school where you want to go to school (colege-I mean) and ask if you can shadow the person - you can trade clerical duties for their expertise.

all my best.


kapn
Learn to starve............

56 thousand law degrees are awarded each year........with thousands in the pipe line......law is and will be saturated for years and years.........get something in the health field and you won't have to starve trying to pay off your 200K student loan........just look in the yellow pages under lawyers.......page after page of attorneys begging for work........the new software can do 90% of what you would hire a lawyer to do.........for $40 bucks........Legal self help just opened in our court house in Feb 2010 they have serviced 900 legal issues in 5 months without the assistance of attorneys……what does that tell you…….go into health care and never want for a good job……..


Howard L
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You already seem to know what you need to do to get into a good law school. Since you want to go into criminal law as a defense attorney you probably need to forget anything you learned about ethics since about 95% of your clients will be guilty and you will spend your time impugning the credibility of a lot of honest people. Learning how to overbill hours is a particularly handy skill for a lawyer.





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