Originally posted by strk
well if you learn to love tax law I say more power to you. And since you have taken the LSAT I dont need to explain what a straw man argument is.
Here is some advice for you - get the book entitled "Planet Law School" and follow the advice to the letter. You will be ahead of your class from day one.
And I agree about the tax cheats - it doesnt make it right - and imo its unpatriotic
I will certainly read it. I made the mistake of reading 1L(Turow) before deciding to follow the Law track and am still trying to talk myself down from the hysteria.
Nevertheless, there are many things with which I do not agree. My dad's a doctor. For the last 5 years, he's been elected, by his peers, as the favored practitioner of his specialty in the state of DE(small, I, know, and his specialty is Neurosurgery, thus putting him up against no more than 7 or 8 others at any one time). I would have liked to practive Medical Law, to defend innocent MDs from frivolous law suits. It pisses me off... Because why should my pops, who, at the age of 60, and with a triple by-pass and a titanium heart valve, need to pay over 300k a year in mal-practice insurance when he's never been sued, for any reason(knock on wood)? He cannot retire because he cannot afford to keep paying 300k a year for 5 years, which is what they require of him in the event of a lawsuit down the line... He's a good man, who gives at least ten hours a week of his time to charity, and performs 30% of his operations free of charge because, after all, doctors, especially in his field, exist to save lives, first and foremost...
I think that your friend Bill Clinton did much to ruin the situation for good MDs. He is one of the reasons I'm a conservative at a relatively young age.
I will not make it into malpractice law because I want to work sooner, rather than later, and malpractice law requires a working knowledge of the medical profession and thus, far more education and invested time.
The closest thing I can do is to defend other hard-working, high-earning americans from the injustice of disproportionately elevated income taxes. This is my belief, however unpopular, and I shall stick to it.
Either that or entertainment law, as I still dream of becoming a novelist one day(creative writing is my number-one hobby, followed closely by drinking and looking at naked women--one eye partially drooping and tongue hanging).
Either way, STRK, I respect your beliefs, in spite of my previous statements. I'm glad we can share a nation where at least there's some sort of conceivable middle ground--albeit one that I cannot, at the moment, conceive of myself.
