I'm going to owe ~80-100 thousand by the time I graduate law school. Yay~
Better you than me. I don't have the temperament to be a lawyer. I'd end every debate, every cross-examination with, "Oh, yeah? Well, fuck youuuuuu!"
I was a lawyer once, for a drama class play. I have no idea why I got the role, I'm a terrible public speaker. I did actually know the law, well, better than most 10th graders apparently. I did a... work-study thing in a law office where I mostly organized files between "learning sessions" that mostly came down to itemizing the procedures involved in legal wills and real estate thingys. Half a semester, in a cellar, with no natural light and very limited standing space.
Anyways.
The case was about a woman who abandoned her baby to its death, a real event, she had issues obviously. I'm fairly certain I actually won the case. The "psychologist" failed to present evidence proving she wasn't mentally capable of controlling her own actions, and that she was guilty of at minimum manslaughter from her neglect. Crocodile tears she shed, crocodile tears I say!
So of course I lost the case, and they basically gave the murdering asshole a honeyed ham and tickets to Tahiti. Why? Because the defence attorney was more popular than me and high schoolers are a bag of dicks.
In conclusion, if you're going to be a lawyer, don't take a case when you're against a 4 foot nothin' girl with hot pink hair and wardrobe provided by Hot Topic.
