Megan from Sacramento, who has a law degree, opines:
I liked the people I went to law school with, and they are more socially adept than many of my friends, but going to law school did not improve my view of lawyers. I thought law was insular and self-reinforcing, and the lack of an external reference means that lawyers aren’t grounded by something that could prove them wrong. I never trusted that there was a solid core to law, so I don’t know what the fundamental limits are to someone for whom law is a practice and discipline.
Some generalizations that make me doubt I’ll date a lawyer:
Lawyers are often innumerate and proud of it, which makes me embarassed for them.They went to law school because they weren’t sure who they were, stayed because it is all-engrossing, and became lawyers because it is ****ing hard not to after law school. But I don’t think many of them like it, and I don’t think most ever made an affirmative choice to find what they love and do it.
Many of them were whiny in law school, especially about how hard they were working. My impression was that whatever lightweight degree they did before law school had never shown them what it meant to work hard. Law school was the easiest of my graduate degrees (but then, I am very verbal and didn’t care about my grades).
Lawyers themselves are often contempuous of their career and peers. It is hard to respect them more than they respect themselves.
I would date a lawyer who convinced me it was what he wanted to be doing, had an awareness that it is both a ridiculous process and has important potential for doing good, and was grounded in the physical world. I don’t think those lawyers are common, though.
Here is another post by Megan.