pinky

I know I can always get a job somewhere like cleaning for another attorney, but even if I failed the bar exam, my law degree should still mean something right? I mean, I know we have many many Jds and PhDs walking around with no job, but I think going through 3 years of law school and passing all the hideous law school exams should still mean something... right?

monali8

a good article from wsj blog: “leverage” the “skill set” you gained from your legal education . . . outside the law profession?

A Call out for JDs, No Bar-Passage Required
Posted by Amir Efrati

helpwantedLooking to “leverage” the “skill set” you gained from your legal education . . . outside the law profession?

The above are snippets from a pitch making its way across second and third-tier law schools’ internal job Web sites, part of a so-called “JD Financial Advisor Initiative” by David Rizzo (Mass School of Law ’96), an agency sales director for Connecticut-based Barnum Financial Group, an office of MetLife.

Noticing a supply-demand imbalance in the legal profession (see a related WSJ story here), Rizzo says he started courting JDs fresh out of school, figuring the skills they learned – including tax and estate planning, and the IRAC approach to problems – would translate well in the fee-based financial planning field.

Rizzo, who started up Barnum’s Manhattan office in January, says over the last year he’s received 4,000 resumes from JDs primarily from lower-tier law schools such as New York Law School, St. John’s University and Hofstra University. Out of 15 financial advisors he’s hired for the new office, 12 of them are JDs.

Rizzo, who never practiced law after finding out during law school that “being a lawyer wasn’t all it was cracked up to be,” says many JDs tell him the job market is tough outside the big firms, where salaries often “can’t pay their bills.”

As a financial advisor, he says, “your law degree is respected by clients, you can earn an unlimited amount of money and there’s flexibility over what type of client you take on and how much time you want to spend.”

Matt Serventi, a St. John’s law school grad who passed the New York State bar exam last year, joined Barnum in March via Rizzo’s online job posting. “I wanted to get value out of my legal education but not by practicing law,” he says. Meanwhile, some of his friends who graduated with a lot of debt and practice law at private firms have moved back in with their parents.

Source:http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/10/03/...red/trackback/

patricl

law school tutor?

If you did well in law school but failed the bar exam anyway, maybe you can still be a pre-law or a law school tutor? They can actually make a lot of money!! The hour is flexible, and once you have established a good reputation, you can even start hosting seminars and stuff for about 60$ an hour, that is not a bad job at all!

mgill

to clarify what patricl stated, most reputable companies will not let you tutor without having passed the bar. I will not even look at applications for tutors with my company before the individual is liscensed. However, there might be something to tutoring/teaching pre law.

In addition, there are plenty of non legal jobs where having a JD would be a plus, you just have to decide what kind of job you want and spin your legal skills into a positive.

Source: www.lawtutors.net