<p>"Look at a typical courtroom during a trial. Nobody wants to be there. The judge resents having to do his job--he treats the lawyers like scum, because they are cluttering up his docket with some piece of **<strong><em>. (Of course, everything on the docket is a piece of *</em></strong>--I have never seen a judge who was glad to be presiding over a given case.) The jurors certainly don't want to be there. The defendant does not. Maybe, if it's a criminal case, the D.A. does, but a wounded plaintiff doesn't want to be there, because his being there is proof that his lawyer failed to get a good settlement, and he will probably lose at trial. The witnesses sure don't want to be there."</p>
<p>That is so true! I find that accurate because being in a courtroom is just depressing. Who the heck wants to be there? I don't. </p>
<p>This part is also funny-</p>
<p>"The fact is, a lawyer's life consists of little more than an endless series of frustrations, aggravations, disappointments and bickering over money. Most lawyers are hapless one-time liberal arts graduates who went to law school because they couldn't do math and couldn't think of anything better to do."</p>
<p>I feel sorry for this guy and for all of the sour grapes that must fill his home to the ceiling. It sounds like he is himself one of the "hapless one-time liberal arts graduates who went to law school because they couldn't do math and couldn't think of anything better to do." What a waste of a law school education!</p>
<p>Maybe in some state courts...100% of the federal judges I know (including bankruptcy, district, and circuit) LOVE their jobs, and gave up ~90% of their potential income to take that job. The lawyers in federal court also tend to be charged up about being there.</p>
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100% of the federal judges I know (including bankruptcy, district, and circuit) LOVE their jobs, and gave up ~90% of their potential income to take that job.
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If you have what it takes to become a federal judge, you can make a TON more money in the legal arena. </p>
<p>I agree, however, that the legal profession is filled with people who went to law school for pretty bad reasons. For some of them, it worked out okay. For others, not so much. I'm shocked at the number of people who do not understand why I'm in law school when I had other options open. The idea of leveraging law school in order to expand one's skill set is completely foreign to a lot of people in the legal profession.</p>
<p>give him credit about the court room issue...i don't want to be there! it's patronizing atmosphere and you feel so inhumane and impersonal. you feel like you're dealing with Gods and mortals in there. garh!</p>
<p>I worked in a County Superior criminal court in New Jersey. It was great. Everyone from the judge down to the County Sheriffs loved their job (though it was the judge who had the funnest times). Are all judges this happy? Certainly not, but obviously it's more then possible.</p>
<p>I resent that liberal arts crack! Some of us anthropology majors made our way to law school as well!</p>
<p>There is no escaping the fact that being a lawyer is demanding. It is demanding intellectually and emotionally at times. So, it is no wonder that there are many who find it unbearable after a period of years. Of course, those are the ones who are verbal about it. After all, who will really start a blog entitled: "why I love being a lawyer." If you love it enough to do that, you are probably busy practicing law.</p>
<p>Do you know the funniest thing, concerneddad? It seems most people don't think of the sciences as being in the liberal arts. Actually, it's not funny, it makes me sad.</p>
<p>WF: No, I had no idea I wanted to go to law school until my future mother-in-law got a hold of me! LOL I really wanted to study anthro. The problem was, as an older student myself, all of my profs were only a few years older than I, and the only way I was going to get a job teaching Anthro was if one of them died young. So, I did what any self-respecting student with good grades and a healthy does -- I applied to law school.</p>
<p>Funny thing was, after all was said and done, one of aunts said she always knew I would be a lawyer because they used to call me Clarence Darrow when I was young. I honestly had no memory of that.</p>