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You Went To Law School, How Can You Be Broke and Homeless?
Policies, Laws, and Regulations
Too Much Red Tape To Becoming An Attorney in The United States of America
- Graduating From Law School Doesn’t Make You A Lawyer
- Graduating From Law School Gives You A Useless Law Degree
- You Have To Take and Pass The Bar Exam After Law School To Become A “Licensed” Attorney
- Oh There’s Another Exam Too, Called the MPRE
It is a very long process to becoming an attorney. It is expensive as well. There are financial costs and the cost of not making any money while attending law school for three and up until the time you take the bar exam and start working as an attorney.
For people like me, it is not easy to become an attorney in the United States. I graduated five years ago. Between that time and now, I have lost everything and have been homeless three times. I lived in my car from October 2018 to May 2020.
When you can not afford the bar exam, you cannot take the bar exam. When you cannot take the bar exam to further your life, you become destitute. When you are destitute, you can not afford to pay your bills. When you cannot pay the rent, you become homeless.
You can go to college in the United States of America — even law school — and end up in the same place as someone who did not attend college. You can end up worse off. Homeless. The difference is that the person who didn’t attend college has no college debt. So their net worth is more. Somebody who did not go to college, net worth is more than my net worth.
