Do I need work experience to go to law school?

You don’t explicitly need work experience. However, I would highly recommend that you take some time to work between college and law school. There are several reasons for this. One benefit is that you can actually explore working life, preferably in the legal industry. You would essentially be killing two birds with one stone. read more

“You don't need law school,” she said. “Law school is a deliberate choice.” For Taylor A. C. Lane ’11, who is a first-year Law School student and a pre-law tutor in Leverett House, said that work experience helped her to gauge the necessity of the law school degree to achieve her career goals. read more

All of these schools also place a premium on work experience. At Northwestern, virtually all entering students have had at least one year of full-time work experience; half of them have worked for three or more years. At Georgetown, almost 70 percent of incoming students have taken at least a year off before starting law school. read more