Google Day #1

Goals for the day, questions, and what skills I want to try/learn/perfect:

• Learn how the law system in U.S.A, South Korea, etc. works.
• Research which universities in America are well-known for graduating lawyers.
• Figuring out what skills I need to be successful in law.

1. How many years does it take to achieve a degree that allows one to become a lawyer?
2. What kind of degree do you need to become a lawyer in U.S.A, South Korea, etc.?
3. In what country do they pay lawyers the most?

I want to try and master the skills that I need to be successful in law, because when I apply to become a lawyer there will be many people that are competing against me; and having an advantage is always for the best. Not only do I want to master the skills I need to be successful in law, but I also want to try and learn the skills that are good for you when you attempt to win a case.

Helpful Links:

• http://www.law.ac.uk/Want-to-work-in-law/Pre-university-Students/Challenges-of-becoming-a-lawyer/: This website shows the skills you need to be successful in law, and gives a very brief description of whether one is fit to be a lawyer or not.
• http://l2b.thelawyer.com/becoming-a-lawyer/124845.article: This website shows a very detailed version of the law system, and how becoming a lawyer works. Unlike the website above, this is very detailed in every possible way; while the website above is very general.
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2002/oct/22/choosingadegree.highereducation: This website basically gives a very long and seemingly boring description on choosing a degree to become a lawyer, yet it proves to be useful.

What I learned:

Becoming a lawyer in the U.S.A might be very challenging with all the competition that is going around the people. Even though you believe that you are prepared enough to be possibly accepted, there is always one person who is one step ahead of you. To become a lawyer in some U.S.A states is not that hard because you only need to take a bar exam, however many to-become-lawyers take a course so that they can have a JD (Juris Doctorate) Degree. Overall, it takes about 7 years to be granted the JD Degree because you need to get a Bachelor's degree first which takes 4 years, then the JD Degree takes 3 years. 

The skills that one needs to be successful in law is learning how to cooperate in team work and people skills, communication and listening, research (analytically and problem-solving, ability to organize and priorities, self-motivation and initiative, and commercial awareness. Also, there are some myths that surround legal professionalism  You do not need to qualify as a solicitor to become a barrister, you do not have to study law to become a law, not all lawyers make a lot of money. So, there are many complicated areas where studying to become a lawyer can be quite confusing.

The countries that may the most for lawyers are actually quite out of the countries that I believed would pay the most. China pays the most towards lawyers with $146,954 as an annual salary, next comes Germany, France, U.A.E, and finally the U.S.A. In my opinion, becoming a lawyer in the U.S.A would be the best choice because of how I can speak English the best compared to other languages that I speak, and the other countries that pay higher than the U.S.A speak different languages mostly rather than English.

Some universities that are good when it comes to law are UCLA Law, Yale University Law, and University of Texas Law. Out of all these universities, the hardest one to get into would most likely be Yale University of law because of how much the competition might be, and UCLA Law might be quite hard to get into also. On the other hand the University of Texas Law might not be so complicated if I have a proper setup of a JD Degree, etc. Compared to students that want to become lawyers with only a bar exam grade, having a JD Degree will most likely increase my chances to get accepted compared to theirs.

One thing I want to learn next Google Day:

One thing I want to learn next Google Day is the average grades, and SAT scores that you need to have in order to be accepted to UCLA Law, Yale University Law, and University of Texas Law. These universities are regarded with great expectations, and knowing before-hand on what these universities want from their applicants would be best for me since I want to accepted to one of the top regarded Law based universities.