Ep. 274: Jobs Without JDs

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Many law school hopefuls are starry-eyed and idealistic, hoping to be a force for good in the world. But after three years of Torts and Wills and Trusts courses, they end up disillusioned and in debt. What if there were careers in the law where you could do some good but didn’t need to get a JD first? Today on the show the guys take a look at some alternative careers in law. Plus, Ben and Nathan assess an “ancient cramming technique,” they hear from a student who tracked their score from 160 to 174 with interesting results, and they offer advice to two listeners who are feeling downright stuck on their LSAT journey. Read more on our website!

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0:00.0	The following podcast uses words that I try not to use around my kids.
0:04.0	Hello and welcome to episode 274 of the Thinking Elsap
0:16.0	podcast in Vienna, Virginia. This is Ben Olson. With me is Nathan Fox in
0:20.5	State Line Nevada. How's it going, man?
0:23.0	It's going well.
0:24.0	Sorry that I was late for today's show.
0:27.0	I did stay up late last night.
0:30.0	I binge watched all of Queens Gambit in one sitting. binge
0:33.0	Binge watched all of Queens Gambit in one sitting.
0:35.0	Oh, yeah, okay.
0:36.0	Have you seen it yet?
0:37.0	Yeah.
0:38.0	I started it.
0:39.0	Maria loved it.
0:40.0	She already watched it and she's like, you gotta watch this.
0:41.0	Yeah, so good, so good. but that's not the reason for my flaking this morning the reason for my flaking this morning is that it's just a weird day after holiday and I forgot that I just didn't think I had anything on the calendar I forgot that we push this today so it's my bad
0:58.8	I apologize. No words. What's on the show?
1:01.8	Today we're gonna have a pearls versus turds on answer choice length.
1:08.0	Okay, I'm curious to see what someone has to in the morass of
1:15.0	someone is lost in the morass of YouTube L-Sat videos.
1:21.0	Okay? We have an email about L-SAT improvement that isn't linear. That's not
1:29.6	surprising. Another one about an L-S-Sat journey's, someone's El-Sat journey isn't going well, that's too bad, okay, we'll see what we can say about that, and then someone has a question about an alternative career in law.
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