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

Re:Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since d... by jamesliudotcc on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:01AM (#28061790)

I will echo what sandworm says here. I went from a philosophy undergrad to law school to a law career to a coding bootcamp to a programming career.

The job is certainly demanding and detail oriented. Analytical, I guess it depends on what you mean by analytical. What I became disillusioned with was how brutally incoherent legal arguments can be. And to be honest, the Python code I encounter is often in better English than the legal code that I encountered. You can try reading the Illinois Compiled Statutes if you would like a taste.

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Re:Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since d... by sandworm101 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:41AM (#28062300)

I am of the school that all laws are perfectly coherent. I read any vagueness as tacit permission for the court to figure it out for itself. So I don't see "loophole". Rather, I see the legislature granting permission to do something. That mindset means I never feel frustrated by poorly-written code. But when judges don't make sense, that is another story.

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