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a lot with other attorneys. The work environment is in the attorney’s office, law libraries

and in courtrooms.

Although the sky is the limit in terms of how much money you can make as an

attorney, all graduates of law school can earn up to $55k nine months after and then

depending upon what you want to do with your career will factor how much more you

can earn. Some lawyers earn up to $126k annually and it can be higher as mentioned

above, the success and dollar figure really depends upon what you want and where you

want to go. The job out look is there will always be a demand for attorneys. However,

technology will in some ways force attorneys to become more self sufficient and less

reliant on their office staff and the attorneys will have to become more office and

computer savvy. There are still ads for attorneys:

Litigation Attorney

Kirkland & Ellis LLP · San Francisco, CA

The San Francisco office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP is looking for highly qualified

attorneys to join our Commercial Litigation practice. We are interested in

receiving resumes from attorneys with three to five years of experience.

Candidates should have excellent writing, oral, and case management skills.

The educational requirements for this field are tough for the fact that it takes a

minimum of seven years of full time study after high school in order to be a lawyer. That

gets broken down as four years of undergraduate study followed by three years of law

school preferably at accredited law schools v. non-accredited law schools. You also have

to take the LSAT which is an aptitude test. Other tests measure abilities such as math and

English the LSAT measures the logic ability. The LSAT is a three-hour-and-thirty

minute test. Only two hours and twenty minutes of the test count towards your score-the

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