Your no long a law student, but a newly minted, bushy tailed lawyer – and what is one thing other than a lot of bad lawyer jokes that you’re going to have to suffer?
Questions about everything from tenancy agreements to whether you can return your underwear to the store?
The Guardian’s Hilary Davidson wrote this week that:
Certainly one of your new fresher friends, or a family member intoxicated with pride at your potential legal status, will ask you about a legal conundrum that the toughest of examiners would have a hard time making up.
Before you’ve even removed the cellophane off your textbooks, you’ll be expected to know the answers to inexplicable legal queries. Sophie Holt, who studied law at Oxford Brookes University, faced her first legal challenge over lunch on Christmas Day, just two months into her course.
We’ve already looked at why some law students don’t ever intend practising law, but what about those who DO?
They face the plethora of queries, as Ms Davidson notes:
After a few nights at the student bar and some late night supermarket trips, your friends will realise that the student loan won’t cover the lifestyle they’ve been accustomed to.
At this point, they may seek part-time employment. While you could soon be profiting from their more liberal spending, ie paying for the central heating to be on for more than one hour a day, you’ll soon be asked to check over their employment contract with a fine-toothed comb.
“I’ve never even studied employment law, but my friends have asked me to check over their employment contracts before signing them,” says Libby Morris, who studied law at the University of Birmingham.
So before abandoning the law and giving away the need for all that free advice.
You meet up with your friends and feel like you’re cheating on your work. You write essay, after problem question, after another essay, and you think about how great it is to be studying a subject that’s as varied and interesting as law – most of the time, that is.
Then you remember all the questions people ask you and think about the day that maybe, just maybe, you might be able to answer one of them.
Source: The Guardian
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