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Have a meeting tomorrow with an established lawyer who practices in both the US and Canada.
What questions should I ask him?? :)
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Have a meeting tomorrow with an established lawyer who practices in both the US and Canada.
What questions should I ask him?? :)
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HIIII!
Thank you all for your questions, they're awesome :)
I asked him a lot about Canada vs. US because I am Canadian and debating if to go to the US for law school or certain Canadian schools!
He was very nice and helpful! He went to a Canadian school but wrote the NY bar exam so practices in both.
Did you talk to the lawyer yet? @adipick708
Questions I have compiled so far include:
Why law/why your area of law?
What areas of law do you see changing/ growing?
How many hours a week do you work on average?
What makes you unhappy about your job? What makes you happy?
And the big one: if you had to do it all over again, would you? What would you have done differently?
I would probably ask about expectations versus reality. What aspects of his work, both in his particular field and in the legal profession in general, had he not known about going in. Any disillusions? Anything that turned out better than he'd expected?
How much free time he has. What his social life is like. How many vacations he takes a year. What school he went to. How long it took him to pay off his debt/if he's still paying it off. How he is treated at his firm i.e. does he have a say in the type of and number of cases he takes.
I 2nd asking what he would've done differently in applying to schools.
Also ask him how much he makes if its not too personal :)
Maybe ask him his favorite things about his current job and some previous jobs.
Ask him law school prepared him amply for legal practice. Ask him about his job satisfaction. Ask him the best parts of his job and the worst. And if he could redo the law admissions and law school process what would he do differently.
ask aboot whether there are much differences in the systems of law between the two or if he needed any specific requirements to practice in Canada. Does he have a dual-JD?