<p>English? Philosophy?</p>
<p>What skills does a Lawyer need?</p>
<p>I recently got interested in the law field.</p>
<p>I'm probably going to double major (engineering and a major for law) and then choose which path I want to go during my junior/senior year at college.</p>
<p>anything you want. just rock the lsats.</p>
<p>i agree with huskem. It also depends on what kind of law you want to do. A friend of mine just graduated and is going to law school. He was a physics major and took many poli sci classes and he wants to go into law for intellectual property rights.</p>
<p>Law school classes will involve considerable writing assignments. Although you can major in anything and still apply to Law school, just make sure you have taken enough classes that do help advance your writing skills. Classes that have essay exams would be a good idea. I majored in Political Science. But many major in English, History, other liberal arts areas. Also, students who majored in Business/accounting, etc. can do well too.</p>
<p>I'm majoring in English and might go in to law. You can pretty much major in anything. You just have to get in to law school.</p>
<p>I heard Political Science was a good major for Law.</p>
<p>I agree with the recommendation to do lots of writing. In my law school, there were folks with lots of different majors (although a disproportionate number of poly sci's).</p>
<p>I think an excellent preparation for law school is to get involved in debate. This more than anything else prepared me to deal with evidence, draw distinctions, put together arguments, not freak out with the Socratic method, and the like. Of my friends in the first year, it seemed like the ex-debaters had the easiest time of it, whatever their undergraduate majors.</p>
<p>As for major -- do what interests you the most. If you don't know, select courses that interest you and your major may select itself.</p>