I am wondering if it would be helpful to hire a college advisor / counselor for Law School like our kids have used for applying to undergraduate college. Is that typical for law school? Is it necessary? Do students need help or advice with the application? I didn’t use someone for college or graduate school but that was many years ago 
Law school admissions is a totally different ball game. The only things that matter are GPA and LSAT (and/or GRE for some LS).
a consultant like spivey consulting can help iff the applicant has an extremely unique (redundancy inteneded) background/life story. Otherwise, just apply broadly with a few schools where the stats are above median (for merit money) and a few stretches where stats are below.
Law school application is different than UG, but at the same time it is more than just GPA and LSAT. Not every applicant with median and above stats of a school gets admitted. Adcoms actually do read the personal statement, additional essays (why X law school) and ECS (jobs).
D2 re-applied a year later, with a meaningful internship and better PS, is getting much better result this time around.
The only thing a consultant could help an applicant out on law school application is the PS.
It does appear law schools like applicants with few years of work experience.
I can’t imagine why anyone would need to hire a professional law school consultant. Get a good GPA. Get a solid LSAT (or for some law schools now, the GRE–although that’s new enough that we don’t have target scores). Write the standard personal statement about saving the world with law (that either no one reads or no one cares about).
Unless your child and his/her college has no clue whatsoever about law school or if there is some obstacle to overcome (such as poor grades or a poor LSAT score), I’d pass on hiring an advisor. I’m guessing based on your post that none of the issues I describe are present.
Thanks. That’s what my son was told at school, but I just wanted to be certain. I appreciate the advice.