So Whos Fooled Themselves By Thinking A Career in Law was Good!

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Muezzin said:
Is French law more about getting to the truth of the matter, rather than the more adversarial legal proceedings of the US and UK?

Heh, there were a couple of French foreign students doing part of their degree while I went to uni. Cool guys.

P.s. Copyright is awesome. Trade marks frazzle my Looney Tune brain somewhat, though I do like design rights.
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Very much so. A professional judge is detailed to do a factual investigation in the matter (le juge d'instruction) and the Code Civil is designed in such a way that every situation has one rule applying to it with little to no overlap and the first question is always which part of the law applies in the case. Then the facts are applied to the law - in England it's the other way round - and so forth. It's all based on an Aristotelian syllogism - there is the law (major premise), the facts (minor premise) and the decision (synthesis). Of course, that's merely the way it's done in the private actions courts, before the administrative courts decisions are a lot less tightly defined and judges have more room to move, so to speak.

They do have precedent though, but it's not binding, it's just indicatory. Indeed, art. 5 of the Code Civil specifically forbids judges from trying to form a binding precedent with their decision; in theory, only the law has any authority. Though a constant jurisprudence is built up by identifying trends in decisions and progressions between them and legal theorists draw implications from same.

I wish I could say it wasn't as dull as it looked as an area of study, but I'd be lying. After a year of legal study in England, I actually felt like my knowledge not only of the law but of the way it's generated increased. After a year in France, I felt more like a giant leaky sponge.
 
Hello fellow legalese peoples! I'm current working as a litigation paralegal and debating whether or not I want to spend $100,000 on law school. So, I thought I'd get my paralegal certification first and actually try it out before taking the leap.

And here I am, 3 years later, still undecided as to whether or not to go to law school. If I do go, I'd want to go to a tier one school, which would mean I'd have to quit my job and work extra hard to do well. Right now, I'm enjoying a job with less responsibilities than a lawyer and not having to work 90 hours a week.

Decisions, decisions, decisions.
 
Janaan said:
Hello fellow legalese peoples! I'm current working as a litigation paralegal and debating whether or not I want to spend $100,000 on law school. So, I thought I'd get my paralegal certification first and actually try it out before taking the leap.

And here I am, 3 years later, still undecided as to whether or not to go to law school. If I do go, I'd want to go to a tier one school, which would mean I'd have to quit my job and work extra hard to do well. Right now, I'm enjoying a job with less responsibilities than a lawyer and not having to work 90 hours a week.

Decisions, decisions, decisions.
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A hundred grand?! Isn't that a bit... much?

In Britain, getting your law degree will cost you, with top up fees, about £9,000 ($18,000) and then there's professional training, BVC, etc.

In France, like all higher education, it's totally free apart from a €100 or so enrolment fee each year, but it's also seriously hardcore and universities try to weed out as many people as possible in the first few years.

And I thought my mate's $25,000 for an international Masters' (split between Columbia and Sciences Po) in political science was steep.
 
hundred thousan dollars!! wow..thats alot, i hope for ur sake that was just a typing error lol

my LPC at law school will be around £6000 i think.
 
In other news, I graduated yesterday. Forgive me if I sound rather sleepy for the next week or so.
 
okay u sed dont reply so can anyone else tell me what the brother above means?...im confused.. is he talking about work experience or is he talking abouy tutoring/problem solving?
 
"Hey all if u have any doubt in law or if u want to be trained under me..u can contact my mobile phone any time...:sunny:

Mobile no:

The above one is my mobile number... its only visible for some genius persons...:(

Dont pm or post a reply message for this post
(im too busy to check them:hmm:)..... jus contact my mobile number..."


sista ^^^ that was a silly post made by Abdul-Raouf :).. it was difficult to understand...so i asked a mod to delete that post... :)
 
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I've been practising for 2 years..... doing litigation.

I hate the court's staff... always delaying in extracting those documents.
 
Encolpius said:
A hundred grand?! Isn't that a bit... much?
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Public (state sponsored school) tuition = $5000 to $8000 a year
Private tuition = $15,000 to $25,000 a year
Doesn't include books (which are freakin expensive here), fees, and other stuff like housing and food.

Not counting the fact that I'd have to quit my job, which would mean I'd lose my income.

The new associates at my firm regularly come in with upwards of $100,000 in debt. Of course, they have a $120,000 salary to look forward to, but only the best and brightest get these jobs. I know tons of law school grads who can't find work as an attorney, so they temp or are paralegals.
 

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