What is a good undergrad major for someone who wants to got to law school to become a corprate lawyer?

Question

Im real confused about the majors offered, I want something that allows me to utilize my international background. I lived 9 years in the far east and 9 years in the Middle east, and now i'm living in the states.

Answer 1

Holy smokes. There are some HORRIBLE answers on here!

Ok, first of all, law schools don't care what you major in. They're just looking at grades and your LSAT.

However, what major you pick is pretty critical. Picking the right one can be very helpful in what internships you get your first year. That internship in turn helps you get other internships/summer jobs your 2nd year and then your first job.

You want to be a corporate lawyer? Fine, what kind of corporate lawyer? Most corp lawyers deal in business. Either litigation or transactional.

You can go one of two ways with your international background. You can concentrate on international business/law, or just use personal experience to deal with any international situations that may come up and just spend your schooling concentrating on a subject in general. You can do general business, but I'd actually recommend you pick something more specialized. Instead of bus admin, pick something like finance, accounting, or econ. That way, you'll know the technical part of business really well, so you can be more helpful when working with a corporate client and their employees/officers. You're not trying to run the business, but understand their situation so you can help them legally. That's why bus admin may not be as important as a more concentrated business major like finance.

Interning the summer before law school in something relating to business is a really good idea too. Gives you even more experience which helps you land a corporate internship/job.

Don't listen to any of that, "pick poly sci" BS. Poly sci keeps getting mentioned as the "pre-law" major of choice. That was true maybe 100 years ago when being a lawyer also meant being a public official, but law's gotten much more pervasive and specialized now. Law schools also know it's an easy major. So, it's really only helpful if you're trying to get into politics or just wanna pump up your GPA. If you wanna be a corporate lawyer, it's not going to be helpful at all.

Answer 2

These days, anything with a strong training in verbal communication and principles of business is good for a law goal.

Business (some schools have international business)
Organization and Leadership
Perhaps even Political Science with a Business Minor.

Many schools also have a pre-law focus, which will lead you in that direction by helping you focus your coursework.

Answer 3

Many attorneys have undergrads in the social sciences such as History or Sociology. Many also have undergrads in business. These majors allow for an intense logical analysis of facts and figures which gives the law student good training in deep thinking.

Answer 4

1. Business
2. Engineering (assuming you want to be a corp lawyer for a technology company, i.e. Microsoft).

I don't know for sure about law, but for medicine, it doesn't much matter what your undergraduate degree is in. What matters is that you have an undergraduate degree, you've taken the proper pre-req classes and that you got a high grade on the MCAT, in your case the LCAT.

Answer 5

that is a good question and depends upon where you are going to school. what majors do they offer etc?
political science is an obvious choice, but internatiol relations/politcs would allow u to take advatnage of your background-if ur college offers such a major

Answer 6

Pursue a degree in business and then attend law school.

Answer 7

If you are planning a career in law you're going to want to major in these areas:

Sociology
Criminal Justice
Philosophy
Political Science
Government
Psychology
Business

Answer 8

Political science

Answer 9

Criminal Justice or Business.