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Manifestor_of_Light

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48. Law school is a good broad education for any kind of business.

Sun Nov 23, 2014, 03:44 PM

Nov 2014

My dad was an attorney who went to law school at night on the GI Bill. He did general civil practice. He told me, "Usually when you go to grad school, your field gets narrower and narrower; when you go to law school you get a broad education that equips you to do a lot of things besides practice law." He was right. It makes you aware of things like taxes and contracts and business licenses and so forth.

He liked to start 501(c)(3) nonprofits for fun.

Unfortunately, when I was in law school they assumed everyone was going to practice law, which is not the case. They should have pointed out some other fields it would be useful in.

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