Moving from finance to law

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<p>Hi All,</p>

<p>I am currently working in Corporate Finance and I have already almost 3 years of work experience in this field. However, numerous times through working on different projects, discussions with colleagues, etc I realised that I am very interested and even more motivated by law and legal issues than finance. </p>

<p>I am very seriously considering pursuing a JD law degree, but from the first impressions it seems that in most law schools the majority of students go to study law without much work experience and the average age is 24-25 at the time of enrolment. I am not that much older, but I will turn 27 in a couple of months. </p>

<p>Is there anyone else that has made the transition from Finance to law after a few years of work? </p>

<p>Do the employers look at this as a strange change?</p>

<p>I do realise these may be stupid questions, but any feedback would be much appreciated.</p>

<p>Thanks. </p>

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<p>The law school forum will probably be better for this. But about 50% of law school applicants are over the age of 25. Many law applicants are probably 24-25 because older people do not often choose to return to law school - by then many have already made their career choices. But that doesn’t mean that law schools discriminate against older people with more experience; I think it just means that there are fewer people in that age bracket applying.</p>

<p>Anything can be a not-strange change if you articulate it correctly. Part of the trick is learning how to talk about your career as if it were an unbroken string of rational decisions, even if it really wasn’t.</p>