Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since dot-com bubble
When I was considering going to law school I learned some sobering facts:<p>- something like 75% of lawyers would not recommend their children go in to law<p>- there is a high rate of burnout among lawyers<p>- while the public perception is that lawyers are extremely high paid, that&#x27;s only the case some elite lawyers that went to elite schools and work for elite firms[1]<p>For someone like me, who doesn&#x27;t just want to help the rich get richer, working in, say, a public defender&#x27;s office will probably mean being really overworked and underpaid and not even be able to devote a reasonable amount of time to the people I was defending because of the workload.<p>This made me wonder: do I really want to go from being burnt out in IT to being burnt out in law?  It didn&#x27;t sound very appealing.<p>I&#x27;d love to hear a lawyer or someone else who knows more about this to correct me, if I&#x27;ve been mislead.<p>[1] - Just today on HN I was reading someone say that they pay their software developers &quot;much much more&quot; than their they do their legal department: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28050106" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28050106</a>