How I Got Into A Top Law School
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There are many ways to get into law school. But I thought I’d share my journey from undergrad to UCLA Law; everything from getting good grades in college, to taking the LSAT, to playing the waitlist game over the summer. I call my story "Legally Brunette."
I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an attorney. Seeing the dramatizations of trial lawyers on TV made me want to get into a courtroom myself. So I did my best to get good grades throughout high school and college. I studied hard and participated in mock trial.
When the time came, I studied the LSAT for months. I studied the crap out of the strategies and tactics in order to get a good score on the LSAT. A good LSAT score is the single most important thing you can do to get into law school.
Eventually, I applied to the top 20 law schools in the country. I was accepted into some, rejected by others, and waitlisted at a few. But I got into the school of my choice (UCLA) and did pretty well (mostly A’s). I got the job of my dreams and am a practicing attorney to this day.
In my spare time, I teach current law students how to kick ass in law school.
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I really wanted to be an architect, but turns out they aren’t allowed to carry machine guns either.
I always wanted to pretend to be an architect
Hmm, so i guess lawyers are allowed to have machine guns..
@@rishabhmahajan6607 It's a secret they take to the grave...
Modern police department accepting DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE hand me downs are up up-armoring& upweaponing all over the place. You do have to be on a "special team"(SWAT, etc...). Beat cops don't get the good stuff, though.
I wanted to be an architect, but it turns out I'm not allowed to be absolutely terrible at many necessary forms of math...
I have an idea for a video. You could explain the different types of lawyers and their pros and cons.
Not a bad idea...
I second this
3rd this
OBJECTION!!! ..... Couldn't help myself I just came from LegalEagle's Ace Attorney video. =P Great stuff man thanks for the uploads.
LegalEagle this would be great
he is the most lawyer looking lawyer I've ever seen
Exactly. He got into a top law school by his appearance. Being a privileged white male goes a long way.
@@xstatic-ow5mz ... Dude. Dont.
THE PROLETARIAT this is so true 😅😂
THE PROLETARIAT I think you dropped your clown licence pal
THE PROLETARIAT stfu
I got good grades and aced the law school entrance exam. During the interview the Asst. Dean asked me why I wanted to be a lawyer and I replied "I want to be different from the rest of my family who are into engineering and medical fields." He then told me: "You want to be different? Well, you can become acrobat instead."
Wow I can't believe you answered with that and can't believe the examiner responded with that... Did you get in somewhere or will try again next year?
@@MilA-eh3gf I still got admitted to the law school. My friends, who were also being interviewed for admission with me, were trying their best not to laugh out loud. :D
@@mirasga Hahaha I would have been holding my laughter too! Well done and congrats to you!
Did you do acrobats or law???? too funny! And who says you cannot be an acrobatic lawyer?? I am a dancing lawyer....
@@PolishedProfessionals I eventually became a lawyer. Though while in law school I did some fire dancing and blew fire in front of the dean and the faculty.
Sadly, I got cold called all the time. They always say, "You're the guy who eats fire, right?"
I have several friends who double majored in Theatre and poli sci and then went onto Law school and are literally kicking ass as lawyers. I DO think theatre classes in performance greatly improve many qualities that benefit a career in law. Being able to present yourself and perform matters and theatre is great at instilling that.
Lawyers have to be trained to convincingly lie to others, as well as themselves.
My boss who is a law professor was also a theater major and poli sci.
@@lhia0416 - La-de-da.
Learning to lie and put on an act is nothing to crow about.
There’s definitely a big element of showmanship to being a litigator.
@@maryhalverson5713 - It’s a widespread myth that lawyers actually lie. What we do is to emphasize truths that make our case/client look better over others that make them look bad. Telling outright lies will get us disbarred.
Philosophy with an emphasis on logic is probably the best and most helpful degree for law school
I second this as a philosophy grad.
I don't see how logic is really that helpful in lawyering. The object isn't to gravitate towards reason, the object is to win.
@@AllYourBaseRBelong2Us - I feel like that's a really reductive way of looking at practicing law. Why would the goal not be justice? Don't we all win when justice prevails? And if you want to achieve justice, you have to be able to approach it objectively and with sound reasoning. Law involves more than just logic, but logic is definitely at play in structuring a sound and persuasive argument. Even if your goal was only to win, you need logic to help disprove fallacious arguments from your opponent and to structure relevant arguments and counterpoints for yourself. If no one in the room is fluent in logic, you can get by without it, but if one lawyer is well versed in logic while the other isn't, the one with logic on their side can potentially use that logic to eviscerated their opponents arguments.
From a big picture, i think you are right....but I was approaching it from the point of a cynic looking for advantage. :)
@johnson
Philosophy also encompasses rhetoric. You can't put together good twists of logic (or cut down the illogic of opposing counsel) without understanding logic, and for most fields of law a good grasp of how all the ststutory and case law interacts is quite important. It seems you're thinking of trial law or even CD more specifically
Law School graduate here. It is a well known fact that a significantly substantial amount of LSAT takers score lower on the actual LSAT than their practice Exam average. By way of comparison, I scored 5 points lower than my practice tests average on the real thing. They say 3-8 points lower is expected. The reason why this happens is because most practice tests we take are old and very very easy. The 1980s, 1990s and Early 2000s LSATs are very simple and easy to score high on. As LSAT prep companies figured out how to get their students to score higher, the creators of the exam began to increase the difficulty. So my best advice for those looking to take the LSAT, when you start practicing on taking exams starts with older ones and work your way to the more recent ones (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, etc) and then only look at the average of your scores from the most recent exams in the past 4 years. That would be the best, and most realistic score to the real thing. Also, don't stress the score you get. It means nothing. I know people who scored high and failed out of school and people who scored low and were in the top 10 of my class. I scored about average in the LSAT and my Bar exam I passed in the top percentile in the country. Message me if you have any questions about the whole process.
Wow, glad things worked out for you and you did well on the bar exam. What are you doing now?
I scored 4 points higher on the real deal than on my best practice!
This is inspiring I scored 140 on my diasgnostic khan academy lsat exam.
The half hearted dead laughter when he said his study partner went to stanford (11:24)
It doesn't matter tho, just the cost of attending, they are equally successful and he is even more successful being famous and all.
@@arcisvar4863 You seem to know an awful lot about what the Stanford study partner does for a living and how he defines success, and what "equally successful" means in this case, and....oh, never mind.
He got in by getting straight A's, winning national mock trial twice in a row, slaying a dragon, and taking a lot of LSAT practice
D. your life is so interesting I wish I had your drive. It goes to show if you want to be successful you have work super hard.
I just got into UCLA off the waitlist literally two days ago and I'll be starting in two weeks! It's been a little bit of a shock getting everything ready for school when the rest of the class got months, but I'm so excited to start my future as a Bruin🤟
Boom! Go Bruins!
Ayyyyyeeeeeeee a fellow Bruin!
Hope you are having fun with that college debt
How many months did you study for your lsat?
You look like a model for just for men
What???
😂😂😂 I can't with the internet...you aren't wrong though.
lol that was funny
Wtf
I can't tell if this is a compliment or insult
I graduated from law school. I worked at the Attorney General's Office for three months, and I can tell you the bar exam has nothing to do with the practice of law.
damien Smith cafe to explain?
@@justinsimon154 its all about remedial law, the part of law where you will enforce your rights through the judicial system.
Black letter law is nothing, anybody can read and understand it, but not all can understand the process on how to enforce once right in court.
I mostly agree. I did learn some useful stuff about wills and family law studying for my state's bar exam though.
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I have a degree in Computer Science & Mathematics. Some of the LSAT questions remind me of the logic courses I took. Some of them can even be answered using a truth table.
Majored in statistics, and now thinking of going into law school, andand yes a lot of the logic is similar
You will do awesome. I went back after my law degree to get my MBA and I wish I would have had statistics first! @@kronus4915
you are totally right. I wish I would have had more math before law school
did you major in cs and minored math or was it a double major
sw0rdz true , some circuit design logic , but the LSAT is more in-depth , and the the language is more sophisticated material.
"Police men aren't allowed to carry machine guns"
/laughs in 2019
/cries in 2019
Oh 2019.... you poor innocent child...
@@DirtyJerseyProductions I was about to say. That poor, poor country.
@@razorcola5434 they do have an insane amount of weaponry tho... police rolling up in straight up tanks
@@idontneedaname318 APCs aren’t Tanks, boyo
I also took a break from studying for the LSAT to watch this! I like you, just graduated UCLA undergrad, and I have the same exact mentality and desires that you explained that you had! Taking the Lsat in September!
Nice. Go Bruins!
This has been very helpful to me. I don't want to abandon my dreams.
I relate to your childhood dream Sir, i myself wanted to be a lawyer at very young age and my first debate was actually to convince my parents no matter the odds that i wanted to be a lawyer and thank God it took me a year to see my dreams through and i have enrolled in a university in Cyprus and I'm doing my LLB undergraduate
Nigel Madzima I’m aspiring to do the same! Thank you for showing it is indeed possible.
it is indeed possible you just have to put in work
I got a 160 on the LSAT with almost no study at all. I just took one pactice test. Thank god I didn't waste a whole summer just to get a mid-160s. I'm currently doing just fine as a litigator.
That's great to hear!
"Get Into Law School: The Applicant's Guide" (book) helped me when I was applying to law school. Only $5 on Amazon and it told me what to do to get into the best law school possible for me. Best of Luck!
since im not a lawyer and dont want to go to law school, im here because the thumbnail literally made me laugh out loud.... legally brunette 🤣
Law & Order is STILL my show. Your videos are helping me prep during my LSAT and thinking about law school (:
We bought our son a LSAT test prep book (at Barnes & Noble), which included free access to the publisher's website, with additional practice tests online. He had a single room in a private dorm at UIUC (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and had plenty of quiet time to study as an undergrad, so he did pretty well on his LSATs (haven't memorized the score, though), and was offered admission to all 3 Illinois law schools outside Chicago (UIUC, SIU-Carbondale, and NIU-DeKalb). UIUC offered our son a partial tuition scholarship, but SIU offered him a full-tuition scholarship (plus, he was getting tired of UIUC). He graduated from SIU in 2017, took BarBri over the summer to prep for the bar exam, and was admitted to the state and federal bars that fall. He's been a partner in his dad's law firm ever since. (So at least he was spared job-hunting!)
Great that it worked out for him!
"When I learned that policemen can't carry machine gun I decided to become a lawyer"
Hearing this in 2020 is jarring.
very weird hearing this in 2020
I’m not even going to law school, have no interest in law school, and I’m watching this video 😂 that’s a compliment! It means that I enjoy your videos so much that I want to watch a video that will do nothing to help me in my future academic endeavors. (Although just knowing something for the sake of knowing it is cool too, it makes me a better human being to understand others). You’re awesome and keep it up!
This man is clearly special. He really makes me listen. I would like to give him some advice now, don't let your increasing talents that are increasingly noticed, get to your head. Keep real
While I definitely agree with many of his points, I think a lot of his advise is also contingent upon whether you're applying to Ivey league schools (US). If you're not, or you aren't American (like me - Canadian), much of this isn't entirely true.
For instance, your LSAT score is not always the single most important/determinative factor in whether you'll get into a law program for other schools. Many schools in Canada (and I'd imagine, the US), weigh several measurable factors when making their choice, such as LSAT, grades (cumulative or best/last two), whether you did a Master's or PHD, work experience, extra-curriculars, etc. If you are not intent on applying to an Ivey league school, you can still get a fantastic legal education at another school, and don't need to score in the 170s. In fact, once you get into a law program, nobody should ever ask you what your LSAT score is, and if you meet someone in law school that insists on telling you, just politely walk away.
Also, not everyone can afford to take the time off work/family commitments or the stand-alone financial cost of live courses. I self-taught for the LSAT using several purchasable teaching packs such as PowerScore and Manhattan Prep, and these in conjunction with loads of practice tests were just fine for me. While I scored okay on the LSAT (160), I know several of my classmates that scored in the mid- to high- 150s, but had fantastic grades and/or tremendous extra-curriculars. These also count!
If you have questions about applying to law school, feel free to shoot me a message!
Objection: a paralegal degree from a community college will teach you essentially everything you learn in the first year of law school, plus you can work in a firm earning yourself some great experience!
long run though u can't compare lawyers to paralegals
Obviously, but you could also say that a paralegal who spent a few years working in a specialized field of law will know more about that particular area than a recent graduate ( because you learn the actual practice instead of hypothetical theory). And so if you already know what area of law you want to practice in working as a paralegal in that field can certainty give you a comparative advantage over your peers. Furthermore, don't quote me on this, but if you work as a paralegal for x amount of years you can become eligible to take the bar exam.
Excellent point! I have a paralegal degree and it gives you a fundamental understanding of what you'd learn in law school. Of course, you will go much more in-depth and paralegals are not lawyers, but going into law school with a great grasp on the different types of law and how to do briefs, legal research, arguments, etc. will do nothing but help you and put you ahead of your peers.
I agree with this, did a lot of research about becoming a paralegal myself
Paralegal degree (2yrs) then complete a bachelors (2 more years) in legal studies should be a great plan. Then of to law school and by then you should have at least 3 years experience in the field. Seems like a great plan to me.
OMG!!! I'm a Freshman at UCLA as well! 😂😂😂 I literally just started watching your channel after the fall quarter instruction begins (today)
I had a really bad experience with my testmaster instructor, he was a horrible instructor he barely taught and flirted with some students
Was he hot?
Just finished my undergraduate application and your story is getting me a deja vu of the personal statement.
Amazing video! I’m currently a senior in college and have thought about taking the LSAT. I’m currently on my way to be a history teacher however it’s 50/50 now, and the tips for the LSAT will definitely help
Everyone scoring higher on practice tests than on the actual exam should definitely retake.
supertrain55 why?
@@jamielannister3627 You're leaving points on the table that can get you into better schools and/or better scholarship offers
My son is starting law school in a few weeks sent him your link. He is going to University of Oregon school of law. We just road tripped out there, spent the week seeing the country. Should be interesting him being so conservative living in Eugene, Oregon. Thanks for what you are doing, keep it up.
I just took my LSAT the other day! I’m super nervous to get my results but I’m one step closer to being an attorney so that’s a W.
I’m not even a pre-law student and I’m subbed! Good stuff!
thank you for this video. its a good reminder that hardwork and diligence pay off on the long run
Hearing that you didn't do well on your LSAT the first time you took it, makes me feel a little better about my self. But then again you graduated with a "cum laude", i'm probably not intelligent enough to get into a good law school. These LSAT problems are kicking my ass.
If you are from a poor family or an older student and can’t afford tuition I suggest first two years at a community college and get a paralegal degree then transfer to a 4 yr and work your way through those two years and get a bachelors in something that will get you a decent job if law school doesn’t work out.
I'm a science major, but political science got me interested in law also. Mainly this was because i wanted to learn more about society, so i see where you're coming from LegalEagle
I want to hear more about your Hollywood lease! Did you have to pay a fee for breaking it? You left us on a cliffhanger dude!
Thanks for being real and transparent.
Hi, great video! I have a couple of questions:
1. What tactics did you use to get in off the waitlist at UCLA? I read that it's not good to pester admissions offices with frequent calls/emails and to spread out communications to no more than once every three weeks. I am currently waitlisted at three different law schools, and I don't want to go to any of the schools I actually got into. I've sent one LOCI each to the three schools, but I'm worried that if I haven't been given an offer by now, I'm probably not going to get off of these waitlists. :(
2. Do you remember what day and month you were given the offer from UCLA? Was it in July? August?
Thanks!
You didn’t get in huh?
My understanding is it's just that a list. You have to wait til your number comes up unless you can make a compelling case that you are a special case in need of an exception.
Most wait lists don't start to move til the start of the school year, few people take the time to provide a courtesy call to schools they were accepted to but won't be attending. Therefore it isn't til they have not provided confirmation that the schools find out how many openings they have and open up the wait lists. Many on the wait lists will have made other plans not wanting to take a chance of sitting out a semester so what seems like a longshot may come through.
A better tactic would be to contact the law department, explain your situation, your desire to attend their specific school, and ask how you could best prep yourself to transfer in after a semester or two at one of the schools you did get accepted to. ie limit yourself to classes you know will transfer and allow you keep a high GPA.
I've known people who couldn't outright afford an Ivy League or elite private school and waited til the last semester to transfer just so the sheepskin would have a prestigious name. This is why schools require you have a minimum number of credits at their institution.
I have always loved Law and Order too. Did you ever addictively watch court tv as well??? I LOVED that channel!!!
Listening to this honestly makes me feel a little bitter about my cycle haha. LSAT and GPA inflation, especially over the past 4 years has been insane. I graduated Magna cumme laude and scored a 173 and was locked out of the t6. I was lucky enough to get into Berkeley, Duke, and Cornell but hearing someone get into Stanford with a 172/170 just makes me sooooo salty lol.
I went to Cornell undergrad, and so I was able to take some of their law school classes while I was still an undergrad.
I didn't go to law school in the end so I can't compare it with other schools out there. That said, I feel confident that the actual classes I took at Cornell Law are probably = probably no better or worse than any non prestigious public law schools.
That was certainly true for my undergrad experience!
Law & Order has been my favorite TV show since 1990! I never got into the other L&O spin offs.
SVU doesn't give equal time to the lawyers! Boooo.
I'm a life-long L&O fan, though I detest SVU. Not only is it boring and repetitive, but I hate the back stories and side plots of its detectives.
I did love Criminal Intent, though. Goren was based off of Sherlock Holmes except with a psychology bent rather than relying strictly on physical evidence. L&O: CI, however, gives little to no time to the lawyers except in a handful of episodes that actually make it to court. And, in typical L&O fashion, those episodes had their own problems. Off the top of my head:
"In the Wee Small Hours" part 2 consists mainly of courtroom drama where it turns out a judge had sex with a drugged-up minor they think he killed, and he gets caught up in his testimony. I believe it's in season 6 somewhere but I'd have to look it up.
"The Good Doctor" (season 1, I'm sure of it) features the trial of a plastic surgeon who possibly murdered and dismembered his wife. Detective Goren gets on the stand and gives testimony that poisons the jury, which was purposely done to get the doctor to testify (he hadn't planned to) in order to rebut the accusations. The actions probably would have resulted in a mistrial and contempt for more than one person (I'm assuming).
"Shrink Wrapped" has very little courtroom interaction, but it does have a psychologist and a psychiatrist who are wrapped up in a murder, the latter of whom gets her friends to commit the former to an institution in order to present an insanity defense. She also gets her friends to dummy up documents saying he'd been behaving erratically for months. It'd be interesting to hear your take on expert witnesses and this kind of thing, which I find preposterous.
I believe there were roughly 200 episodes and I can only think of 3 with significant courtroom involvement. Eek.
Thanks for sharing, I’m glad that I found your channel.
Crazy to watch this video while I'm an undergrad at UCLA, majoring in polysci, and planning to go to law school straight out of college.
You were unhappy with a mid 160 score? I'd kill for a mid 160 score.
Thank you for sharing very thorough and informative
"unlimited amount of eduction TV" LOLOL
Idk why i watched the whole playlist about Law School tips when i have no interest being a lawyer. But this is so interesting!
Wow, LSAT must be crazy for a UCLA undergrad that graduated top of his class and had all of extracurriculars on his belt to not be immediately accepted into UCLA Law School
Thanks for sharing your story, it was very helpful
Hey James, I have a question about mock trials. I am not from the US and I know only basic things about law and judicial system in America but I know that every state has different laws and rules for lawyers. I was wondering how mock trials are conducted if you are studying law in California and competition is held in Vegas with Nevadan judge. I'm not sure if it's just in my brain but I feel like going from Californian law to Nevadan judge is like going from German law to French judge.
Please correct me if I'm wrong and I would really appreciate the answer.
Sorry for any language mistakes, I'm not native English speaker.
Hey! I did mock trial in high school, and while we didn't cross state lines for competitions then, it's not that different from national college mock trial in terms of rules/set up and what not and I have a bit of experience with college mock trial, although my university doesn't have a team. First of all, it is a /Mock/ Trial, emphasis on mock. So you actually don't really use "real" law. Instead, the governing body of the league has their own established rules of evidence and criminal/civil legal codes and whatnot. These are based on real US law and are essentially the same as you might find in any given state, they're just a slightly simplified version (ie there are some short cuts in evidence so that competitions run a bit quicker that real trials might) and provide a standard legal code for everyone to go on. So if you're from CA competing at a NV tournament in front of a Nevada judge, everyone is still on the same page because everyone is using the league's rules of evidence and legal codes/statutes instead of their respective states. Most states have very very very similar legal codes and rules of evidence (with the exception of special places like Lousianna) but naming/numbering conventions can differ, so thats where standardization plays the biggest role.
Bridget Maas thanks for the comment! it was interesting
Can you make more videos about Mock Trial? I think a lot of it is pretty applicable to aspiring lawyers, too. For example, something like “How to Make a Good Opening Statement” would be really helpful for Mock Trial and just in general.
Thank you for sharing your story!
How do you not have millions of views?! This is really a great video. Thumbs up! :)
Why am I watching this I'm going into engineering
Talk about high expectations and financial resources, having to resign yourself to going to law school at USC, a prestigious private school in Southern California.
My father went to law school at University of Minnesota but got his undergrad in Geology. He wanted to be a lawyer for mining/oil companies. He worked in a town of 300 doing mostly probates and estates.
Do you have to be good looking to be a lawyer? Can you discuss becoming a patent lawyer?
Do law professors in their 60s look like models? I can't believe someone asked this..
5:00 Word to the wise: Political Science is the study of political trends and how they arise and fall on a state by state scale. Government majors usually learn the structure of government and its history. Neither really help with the study of law.
I am currently a philosophy major and I switched because philosophy helped to develop my theory and analytical skills. Of course, that doesn’t really help with law school either but it helps when it comes to logic and reason in that portion of the LSAT.
My brother was an instructor for Test Master! He got a perfect score on the LSAT
I carried a "machine gun" as a police officer.... then again I was military police 😂
Point of Order: Architects also do not carry machine guns. (Typically.)
Salty about the roommate getting in early . I love it :)
I went to UCLA as an undergrad. Hopefully I get into UCLA Law School just like you!
Did you get in? :)
What a great story. Thanks for sharing.
My question though is after i graduate with my LLB then what options should i explore, because personally i would love to become a barrister because our curriculum in Cyprus is fashioned in the form of UK law
My question (again seriously) is are there lawyers in the US who are basically like UK solicitors. Basically, lawyers who never go to court (in the UK they can't, that's a barrister's job). I'm guessing it would be like contract law, wills & such, maybe entertainment law, maybe international law. The main reason I never went to law school was a fear of public speaking.
I also wanted to be an architect for a short time in my pre-teen years. I discovered I wanted to be an attorney in my adult years while working in show business in my city.
Do international students get to pursue a JD degree in the US?
In a good school, is it harder for international students to get into the JD program than it is to get into the LLB program?
Lawyers or Law students, if you're reading this, please answer it would mean a lot:)
For anyone interested yes it is much harder, the majority of top schools only accept 1-2 JD students without American undergraduate degrees. Also there is no LLB in the US.
From a european perspective this is so weird, I just straight up went for an LLB and then a double LLM straight after highschool
Yes, it is strange from a European and East Asian perspective where LLB is given at the undergraduate level.
Harvard used to award an LLB until 1977. The American legal profession has been working steadily to raise the barriers to entry, and the universities are not averse to collecting an extra four years of tuition.
It's starting to happen in Australia now. Old friends of mine qualified in the law by working as articled clerks and taking night classes at colleges of advanced education (equivalent to American community colleges, and now "upgraded" to universities). But these days the University of Sydney will only teach their LLB as a double bachelor's with another degree (BSc, BA, BEc etc.), and there is no doubt that the other law schools will follow suit.
Most of my friends told me that Legal Management and Accountancy are some majors that can help a lot in prepping you for law school.
Thank you for sharing your story...
Hell yes, I want part 2 of this story.
So can lawyers carry machine guns?
Objection, you should talk about the different law specialties. For example, I worked for a disability law office for while when going to school. Lots of different skills necessary for that work. Very difficult to navigate the system etc.
A side strategy for the LSAT, but NOT the main way: sudoku and chess. It's about logical thinking. Those help you so much. Never taken it, but realized after looking at it, that's a strategy. Look at LSAT questions and see what I mean. Not easy peasy.
"And then i found out Architects couldnt carry machine guns"
Yet. Cant carry them YET.
Could I subscribe to this channel a million times? I've found it so helpful!
what is his name? thanks for the info btw
Eagle. Legal, Eagle.
Bleak House by Charles Dickens is the best representation of the horror involved with filing a lawsuit or getting involved with the lawyers.
What if you have an average gpa and a very high LSAT ? Would u still get accepted to good law school?
Define average gpa? If you're a splitter with a 168+ I think you should get in at least a T20
It also depends on experience, but a 3.5 with, say, a 178 and a good app would probably get you into a T20, if not a T10. It's still a crapshoot, but one that emphasizes clear writing and good test scores and/or a good GPA.
I thought you were going to say…”and after watching law and order, that provided the basis of my legal education.” 😂
"Personal reasons" means a girl
I'm going to UCLA law on a scholarship this fall! Go Bruins!
My tip on SAT: Bring a stopwatch with you
So basically to be a lawyer you need a couple racks of disposable income just lying around. Nice
Like F. Lee Bailey always encouraged, major in english. It is the weapon and tool of an attorney.
I like this guy and everything he said is accurate, but I don't love the video because he only discusses the LSAT. Yes, the LSAT is the single most important element of your application, but the rest is very important too. If you write a mediocre personal statement, or get underwhelming letters of rec, you are going to have a hard time getting into schools. Indeed, if you have a bad personal statement, you won't get in. The LSAT is crucial, but every year schools admits students with LSATs below their averages (sometimes well below) because they love the ret of the application.
I'M NOT BITTER!!!!!
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HE OWES ME!!! HE F*****G OWES ME!!!!
I think I could have been a good lawyer, in another universe where I was 100 times smarter and 1000 times less lazy.
Objection! ‘Brunette’ is a French female word, so this technically doesn’t apply to you. You would be Legally Brown-Haired, or Legally Brunet, if you wish to poetically adhere to French grammar rules.
Love the videos btw, keep it up!
Funny because when I took business law class is when I knew I didn’t want to be a lawyer because I sucked at it. Just couldn’t wrap my head around torts and I still bumble between what’s assault vs battery
@00:45 Police Officers aren't allowed to carry machine guns but lawyers are?
Add-on (not objection)- It was TNT.. this was back when TBS showed 007 marathons on many holiday weekends. (we affectionately called them 'The Bond Station'..! )
Amazing channel :D Thank you ;)
Do a bar exam video please! (If you haven't already.)