Law School Sucks

[TinCow]

I hate arguing, if a nice conversation starts becoming an argument I just stop talking or change the subject. Law school would drive me into constant anger followed by constant depression.

This is part of the problem: people view law school, and indeed the whole legal industry, as 'arguing' for a living. Many people (myself included) find this to be an appealing career, and thus go into law expecting it. The problem is that law school doesn't really involve much arguing, nor does most legal practice. Law school is, mainly, learning what the current law is and then parroting your professor's views back to him/her. There's not much involved in those three years where you get to make actual arguments to convince someone of anything. Certainly law school exams (basically your entire grade) and the Bar examination do not involve arguments. In addition, with the exception of trial lawyers, there's not a lot of arguing in actual legal practice either. It's largely research, document drafting, and negotiation. Certainly trial lawyers argue for a living, but most lawyers don't argue before a court ever, and even for most of those that do it's a rare situation. Thus, many people get into law thinking that the entire career is trial lawyers getting up and arguing before a judge and/or jury, just like on television. However, 90% of legal practice doesn't involve that. As such, many people get disillusioned with law because it's not what they expected it to be when they signed up for it.

If you don't like reading ass-tons of documents and writing ass-tons of legalese, you should avoid law like the plague. The reality is that that's what you're going to be doing with the vast majority of your time.