[joker122]

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Rich people are always talking about having lawyers to protect them from their other lawyers etc, so if I went to law school I tend to think I'd see through a lot of that and also have some good skills to utilize for tax planning, contracts, investments and the like. Is it possible to pick up the skills just going to law school?


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absolutely. this is one of the main reasons i went - so i can handle my major transactions/contracts throughout my life myself.

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If the answer is yes, then I say finish it. A financially independent, intelligent, motivated and enterprising young adult who is law school educated, will do better in the long run than one who is not law school educated, IMO, especially if those three years were currently assigned to doing nothing much.

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there is no doubt that a law degree will be very useful. what i'm trying to do is decide if it's so useful to justify the $120k it costs + the 3 years of income/experience that i am foregoing by attending.