Law school...how hard is it really?...Can one work a job at night&go to Law school&still get good grades?

Answer 1

Law school is easy to get by in but hard to excel in. Since most top law schools have a fairly narrow range of talent ( in terms of everyone being of about equal qualifications when they entered ( as those with better qualifications went to a better school and lower - lower, )) you can roughly assume that those who work harder will exceed their classmates. As most grading is on a curve thre will be a limited number of A's and a certain number of F's. When I went to law school there were people who showed up at the library at 8 am, and left when it closed at 10pm five days a week, while that was the extreme, how are you going to compete if you are working rather than studying?
If you need to work while you are in law school, you may do well to pick a school were you will exceed most of the student body in qualifications so as not to suffer so much from not studying. If at the vary least, you can get by not working the first year you should. The second and thrid years can be much less rigirous and allow greater flexibility in scheduling.

Answer 2

I'm not in law school or anything, but I imagine it's pretty tough....just like med school. Not everyone is cut out for it. My advice would be to not try to work at first. Maybe as time goes on, you could try it, but I'd wait until you got to know what all it was going to take to study and everything.