Thread:Sailor*Moon*Star/@comment-3247345-20120531041901/@comment-3247345-20120603034211

Yeah, it is pretty competitive. If you went the criminal defense route you could get a job pretty easily in a local public defender's office. They're pretty much desperate for help and they accept applicants straight out of law school. The only downside is the salary, which is only $30k-$40k per year. That's pretty bad, epscecially with all the debt you'll rack up going to law school. You'd have to work there 80-90 hours a week for several years and do a really good job to get into a criminal defense firm. Once you get into a criminal defense firm the salary improves greatly and you don't have to work as much. But it's a tough first few years. In all likelihood I'll be going to the University of Colorado at Denver because it's on the same campus as the college I'm currently going to.