-: For pre-law, you can take the LSAT,
go to law school with very different degrees.
The real final enjoyment out of that
is that can allow you to explore areas
you may not have considered.
It is important to be a great student
and it's important to have some skills,
time management, hard work, networking,
to help you to get ready for law school.
But it doesn't mean you have to do
a specific set requirement.
A lot of students, I think, think that.
If you're taking the patent bar,
which requires hard sciences, you would need those.
But if you are interested in law, that's acceptable.
Look at areas that you may enjoy
and find passion in the law about
to help project you for those late nights
of study and work
so that you can realize
that this is what you wanted to do.
I think it's great to have both private
and government experience.
I think it's great to have experience
from a broad background.
I think it's great that you have a interest
in what you do.
I think it's also great
you have excellent cover letter, resume,
all that is polished.
I think it's also good to have backgrounds
where you could, in a elevator speech, quickly define.
It's all right if you did an option
or opportunity that wasn't really enjoying,
but I think that's a way for you to find yourself
and what your needs are.
But I definitely think,
take advantage of externships
and field placements
because that is something that unfortunately
you only get with experience.
You're juggling multiple projects
with multiple individuals.
Team effort and working well with others is critical
because in order for the pieces to all fall
in the right place, you really have to have
excellent communication skills,
and you have to be somebody
that you really like meeting different type of people
and adapting to different work styles
and just various organizational instincts
so that you can do well
and so the organization can do well.
That's something, it can be an adjustment.
As a new attorney, it's just realizing
how the day-to-day logistics work out.
That helps you once you take that in
and realize that that helps you substantively
in the area of law that you practice.