I see your sarcasm. Another jaded attorney. Just so you know, not everything be who goes to law school is clueless about what practice is like. My father is a litigator who spent 90% of his life away from my family because of work on one big case. 15 years later, that case was resolved and its in every civil procedure, complex lit, and fed courts textbook in the country. After it was over, all of the lawyers sued each other for fees. We got fucked (a good amount of money, but in comparison, fucked). Then, people thought he had gotten more since the total attorney's fees were public record. So he got sued by people he thought were friends over totally bullshit claims.

After everything was said and done, we ended up with little money, but a great disillusionment with the legal field. He spent more than half my life on this case and all he got for it was a knife in the back. It's one of his biggest regrets. Oh, and this all happened prior to me applying to law school.

Additionally, I have personal experience with how shitty the legal field is. I didn't get a summer associate job. I was a law clerk for a v50. Unlike the SAs, I didn't get summer camp. I was worked 12-14 hours a day. Sometimes I was in the office until 3-4am. Sometimes I had to work weekends. It was part of life.

And if you're not satisfied with that, I wrote a large part of a death penalty opinion when I worked for a federal appellate court judge my 1L summer. The inmate was clearly erroneously sentenced, but there was little case law on his side. He was procedurally barred from bringing his claim at that point. Most people won't ever know what it's like to think "man, if only I had researched this bit of law some more, maybe that guy would still be alive." That weighs on me every day.

You're welcome to scoff at my comments and think "he knows nothing about what he's getting into" but you know what, I know a lot about what I'm getting into. Moreso than most. So take your jaded attitude out of here. Some of us law students really want to become lawyers, even in spite of how shitty the field can be.