The top civilian question: "what kind of law will you study?"

The top answer from me: "no idea".

Recently I ran into a college acquaintance and law school graduate. Aside from being unusually positive about the life of a law student (optimism is already rare) he observed that people tended to approach law school either as vocational school or grad school.

His view was that attempting to prepare for a law specialty during school is pretty useless, since everything you know about practicing law will be taught to you on the job. He advocated the grad school approach -- take the classes that appeal to you. Ignore everything else.

05 Aug 04