Welcome! In this video, I'm gonna give you the five steps on how to become a lawyer.
That way you can get your very own bar card --
aka a license to argue, use responsibly
Welcome to Law Venture -- a channel devoted to lawyers, and in this case, future
lawyers. Now, before I hop into the five steps on how to become one, I need to
give you a little bit of a disclaimer because as I go through these steps I'm
afraid I might lose you and you might lose hope and becoming a lawyer. Each one
of these steps can be pretty difficult and as a whole the entire process is... the
words that come to mind are stressful brutal stressful anxiety filled painful
yeah definitely definitely stressful. all these words accurately define while it's
so hard to become a lawyer. There's no denying it it's super super hard and
it's just an absolute grind and I don't want to scare you off though but I'm
telling you if you can get to the finish line it's worth it. the ability to help
people in their time of need -- there's no better feeling. So if you're still watching
at this point I haven't scared you off let's go ahead and dive in. With step one
you need a bachelor's degree. This means that you need to go to college or
university whatever you want to call it and then you need to get a degree in
something that earns you that bachelor's. Now it's a completely separate video but
there are some majors and minors that will better prepare you for law school
than others but at the end of the day spoiler alert it doesn't matter. You can
have a completely unrelated major that has nothing to do with law and as long
as you have a bachelor's... guess what... you can still go to law school. But you need
to satisfy step two and take the LSAT. Now the LSAT is essentially the
test that leads you into law school schools use it as a way to indicate
whether or not you have I guess the skill set or the way of thinking
it comes to being a lawyer I can tell you right now that your LSAT score is
not an indicator on whether or not you'll be a good law student and whether
or not you'll be a good lawyer there may be some correlation but is not the
end-all be-all I cannot stress that enough I know
plenty of people who got a nearly perfect score on the LSAT they went
through law school and they're not even practicing lawyers today it just wasn't
for them it didn't really click with them and they went on to do different
things with their lives step three you got to go to law school
ok we're finally at probably the hardest part this is also potentially the most
rewarding part because law school is the part that really starts shaping your
mind it starts making you look at the world in a different way
you might start reading things and you're reading the box of this Amazon
item that came in and there's a disclaimer on the back and you're just
nitpicking all the little issues with the disclaimer then you're like oh this
is just weird and yes it is stressful and I can tell
you plenty of horror stories in fact I have one particular or sort of that it's
gonna be a little ridiculous you might not even believe me if you need any law
school advice or if you have any law school related questions type those in
the comments below I'll go ahead and I'll be happy to make subsequent videos
to kind of help you through the process because I've been there I've done it
I've experienced it. So you get through law school and then what happens you get
your JD but at that point in time guess what you're still not a lawyer you have
to move on to step four you need to pass the ethics exam and you need to pass the
bar exam two separate tests normally be sure to take the ethics exam when you're
not studying for the bar I can't stress this enough if you're on your final year
of law school take it then because whenever you're studying for the bar
I'll talk about this in a second you're gonna be just panicking about the bar
you're not gonna want to spend any time so
for the ethics exam it is most likely in your state the ethics exam isn't really
that much of a monster if you've had a course in ethics essentially tracks that
and you're already prepared for it now let me describe to you the way the
process with the bar exam was for me you come out of Law School
feeling like a champ you've went through the grind you survived you graduate and
then the very next day day one of summer you are studying from May until the end
of July full-time non-stop just trying to pass
and this will be the first time in your life where your goal is just a pass
here's what makes it stressful you've passed are you taking in July and you're
waiting until November most likely defending our state for the results so
not only are you most likely not working from May to July that entire summer no
income but you're in this weird limbo phase of okay from July to November have
my JD but I'm not a lawyer so maybe you may still be an intern who's not getting
paid pending bar results you may be an
associate who your job is riding on the fact that you better pass the bar in
November keeping in mind that in most situations the day after the results
come out your student loans kick in and you need to start paying them there's a
six month period of just I don't know what's gonna happen if I fail this I'm
gonna have to wait another six months for results to come out and go through
this entire process again but once you get the bar results and they have your
name on this list it's the best feeling in the world
now step 5 the easiest step and this is something I recommend that you maximize
and just have fun with and that step is to get sworn it because once your bar
results come in and you've passed and you're on that list and you're cheering
and all you have to do is just go to a judge raise your right hand and repeat
the words and you're set now if you've made it to this point of the video you
may think either a yeah this sounds awesome I want to do it I'm pretty
interested in this or be next video next career choice this isn't it for me
if you're in the first group and then the next question I have for you and
probably a question you're thinking is should you become a lawyer do you have
what it takes now I'm gonna have a follow-up video that'll have a little
bit of a quiz slash analysis and that way you can apply it to yourself in your
life that will hopefully answer that question or maybe put you on the right
path if you have any questions based on this video or any future questions based
on just anything when it comes to becoming a lawyer or at the law school
process be sure to put the questions in the comments I may make another video to
answer that I'll be sure to give you a shout out and if you like this video
click like and please don't forget to subscribe until next time this is Jarrett
stone from law venture welcome the law venture this is channel
and I spit everywhere all these words define the grind that's not supposed to
rhyme dang it I'm doing it again okay huh may be able to better room air
you
okay step 3 step 3
most law schools essentially start in the fall semester