...and all of the sudden i have a lot of reading and writing assignments, plus keeping all the contracts straight is starting to become more difficult.

It's a straight code test, anything about the model code should work. I spent like 2 hours studying and 40 minutes taking the test and am ethically capable of practicing in every MPRE-using jurisdiction in the country.

anyoen who took business organizations (agency, partnership, corporations, etc.) have any good recommendations for a supplement?

Anyone have any experience with the University of Minnesota law school admissions?

They said my 4.5 year old LSAT score was not current enough. I appealed to their dean and pointed out the application said 5 years. I won that motion and proceeded to trial where I earned an official rejection.

lol. hmm wonder why they didn't let you in.

Hey guys!
I will not bore you with questions such as what LSAT and GPA!!!

Instead my question is more to the tune of dual degrees. Do you guys know anyone that got a JD and say a MBA or Doctors degree? Do you guys even know if it is worth it? How sick is the workload?

I just recently, like very recently (2 semesters or so ago), started considering the law school approach and I never really saw anyone mention this before.

do any of you guys post on xoxohth? back when I was thinking about law school I used to frequent that site. pretty funny at times.

What do you want to do with those degrees?

I really don't know how it would be possible. Now that I'm back in school I'd like to get a M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics as well, but I'm already busy almost constantly. I could probably make more efficient use of my time, so I say if you want to be a school robot go for it.

I think I'll go through the rest of my life wanting a Ph.D. in econ, but I'll never get it. (and that's probably a good decision)

I just want a giant ****ing house and a range rover

Something tells me you'd get along well with the partner at the firm I summered with who drove a giant, bronze H2 with a license plate that read 'LITIG8'.

Trust me, a JD would be more than enough for me. It is just I am getting a ton of literature from these law schools and they all seem to have some kind of dual degree program.

I was just curious as to does anyone ever do this? And what exactly are the benefits-- more specialized, more versatile?

lol not really. i am more of a quiet, polite, unassuming fan of giant ****ing houses and range rovers....but wow...that guy sounds pretty super.

I think you already got the best advice you could get in this thread. I would recommend having a very specific reason for entering a joint-degree program - something better than 'It sounds good on paper.' These programs are a money mint for schools and they will beat you over the head with great reasons to give them an extra $10k a year. I started a joint JD/M of Public Policy, but quit the M part after realizing it was pointless if what I wanted to do was to be a practicing attorney.

Yes, at a certain age, what you've done trumps what your sheepskin says.

Yay! I got a personal record for practice LSATs with a 165, good times.

Also, I am starting to get some information sent to me about law schools and, for example, michigan state university notes that their 75th percentile lsat score is 159 and the median being 155. They also state that median undergrad gpa is 3.36. My gpa is 3.15 and I think I will get a 161+ on the lsats. Does a mid 160s lsat get me into a school like that?

this year's college mock trial case has a poker player witness, who says the defendant had tons of gambling debt from poker and sports betting. and I think I'm going to have to write an email informing amta that you can't rebuy in a freezeout, and that it's pretty much impossible to bet a cool million on a non-super bowl game.

Yes, but IIRC Michigan State has an unusually bad law school(relative to their undergraduate rep) because something weird happened where they bought a nearby bad law school or something.

Aim higher than that with a 165 unless you're from East Lansing.

Anyway, the LSAC should have admissions charts for GPA/LSAT combinations in a .pdf for most schools.

Hello thread readers. I wanted to make a comment about law school and being a lawyer. I am a bankrutpcy lawyer in Denver and have been doing that, in my own firm for twelve years.

I wanted to state that law is a difficult career, and law school involves such a committment of time and money that you should be absolutely sure that you want to be a lawyer before you commit to it. Most lawyers are unhappy and end up leaving the profession. Thats not necessarily a disaster, because some of these people segway their legal background into good, related type jobs. My informal notion of how many is maybe 7 out ot 10 leave the profession, and would probably have been better off not going to law school.

If you go to a good school and do very well, like top ten percent you can probably expect a fair amount of financial reward for that. Believe me, you give up alot of your young life to get there.

What Im saying is the top level good paying jobs at big firms are there, but you have to do very well, and sacrafice a ton to get there.

That said, if you want to be a laywer, a street lawyer as it were. Then your good, cause the people need help. They can rarely afford it, but if you want to fight the good fight and enjoy that sort of thing then it might be for you, even if you dont make the top tier jobs described above.

All Im really saying is spend time figuring out if its for you before you put so much of your life into it. btw for the intitial time in school and the first few years of the career in a big firm, you can forget about playing poker simulataneously, you will not have time and will flail just as badly as Mike in Rounders. This might not be true if you are truly brilliant, like Andy Bloch type smart, but for most of us that will be the case, youll fail at both trying to do it

Ugh, I'm on a terrible downward trend right now. One week ago I had 3 really good scores, and since then my 4 latest have dropped considerably. Anybody got any advice? RC is where I'm missing most of my points.

How are you learning to take the test? (books, class...ect)

also, rc = ?

I took a course a year ago.

Over the last 2 months, I have just been self studying, which consists almost entirely of doing practice tests and reviewing them. (FWIW, I really like this method and it has shown great results for me)

RC = reading comprehension

Oh ok. When are you taking the test? You should look up some of the strategies provided but the lsac courses. I really like the way they break down the reading sections. What section are you struggling with, the essay or theshort paragraph ones?