Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since dot-com bubble

Re:Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since d... by user5994461 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @05:39AM (#28059048)

The trouble in law is to get qualified (in the UK). If you can't finish the 5 years of study or you can't find an internship at the end (extremely competitive), you've wasted your entire time and money and you will never be able to give legal advice and charge £500 an hour.

But after that it's a walk in the park.

The competitiveness of lawyer and developer jobs is really not comparable. All companies have a legal department and hire lawyers, internal lawyer is a good office job with a decent pay but nothing extraordinary.

There's no comparable career path for developers because only tech companies hire developers, the comparison is unemployment if you couldn't make it to a tech company.

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Re:Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since d... by the_monocle on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:29AM (#28060196)

> because only tech companies hire developers

That is completely wrong? The FAR majority of developers do not work in tech companies. Most big corporations have internal developer teams, or they employ some contractors that do development for them. But MOST big companies employ developers in basicly all industries.

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Re:Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since d... by badpun on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @07:24AM (#28059712)

All large companies hire plenty of developers. I suspect that, in total, there’s way more devs in non-tech than in tech, esp. outside of US.

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Re:Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since d... by neallindsay on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:56AM (#28060463)

Seconding this—every company has to have accountants, lawyers, and software developers. Sometimes they contract it out to external firms, sometimes they hire directly, and once they get to a certain size they almost always do both.

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Re:Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since d... by lowercased on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @07:17AM (#28059672)

"only tech companies hire developers".

Not sure that's really 100% true, although it may have more to do with a company considering themselves a tech company or not. Companies do hire programmers/devs/tech folks, but may look on them more as a cost-center than a revenue generation opportunity.

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