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My Life as a Lawyer By: Alexander April 29, 2009  Part one – Introduction

Hi, my name is Alexander Robair and I attend West Jefferson High School. I am 17 years old. I live in Gretna, Louisiana. I am a young male who is trying to finish high school. I use to cause trouble in school. I use to argue back with my teachers. I like to have the last word about and thing I was told. Also, I like to put away bad guys who do crime to the good people. When I was young I dream to put the people who rape people away, my mother always taught me to be independent. Before I started working at Mc Donald’s my mama use to make me go out to find a job. I use to tell all my friends I would sleep into death. I used to be a lazy child, but if it wasn’t for my mother I wouldn’t have done that. I have anger problems too. One day I as filling out a job application and I didn’t know ho to do it. The kids in my class use to call me dumb until my teacher heard them and the taught me how. Ever since them all my teachers who taught me how to fill out job applications. I use to work at Mc Donald’s. What do I want be in the future? I want to be a lawyer. Why I choose this career? I like arguing with people. I plan to master every thing I do to become a lawyer. In order for me to do that I have to stay in school, I thought of dropping out of school. One day god sent a man to talk to the students and that man was a pastor. He said some very powerful words and that made me not want to drop out. I decided to stay in school to achieve my goals. Part two - The search

It wasn’t easy getting the research done. My Career is kind of hard to look up

Research on. I went to several types of websites to get information. Most of the websites didn’t have as much information. It was hard to find the information I needed. Some of the website didn’t have any information. I tried using books, magazines, an encyclopedia and the internet. The internet was my best resource to use. Although I had problems getting the internet from my computer, it was still the easiest. We really didn’t go to the library or anywhere to get more information. I ask my teacher can I go to the school library during class she told me no. That still didn’t stop me from getting the information I need. When I first got the assignment I though it as a hard one because I had to be eight pages and doubled space and though that was a lot. Then somebody told me it wasn’t because doubled space takes a lot of room. During the search I though about just getting an F, but I thought “it’s worth my test grade.” I went home with headaches trying to figure out how I’m going to pass this class with this essay. One Sunday I sat in the hall way all night trying to finish getting information. My computer had all types of major problem. I couldn’t type the information that I was trying to get. Once in awhile I got lucky and found websites that gave me information about salaries but it did not give me information about job duties. So it took some time to get all of the answers to my research questions. == In My Search I found out that lawyers can make an average between 80 to 120 dollars a year. Also, it depends on the type of practice they have. A low fee would be about 125.00/hr, but it can get into the huge numbers when dealing with huge corporations or famous people. It varies widely. A lawyer working for poor people can make 30-50k. Lawyers in the government make 40-110k-ish. As for a private practice, it can vary from 40k million per year. Law students newly graduated from law school who end up at big firms are making between 125k-160k plus significant bonuses of 15- 60k. This is first year out. Also, in my search I found out that if you go to a well educated school you can make more money. If you go to average school you wouldn’t start out being a good lawyer. The school I want to go to become a very good lawyer is LSU. LSU offers a good education in law and other things. They teach you some of the skill you will need; they will let you visit some of the courts. If you tell them you graduated from there you are saying something. In order to go to LSU you will need to have a G.P.A of 2.5 and that’s a (n) C average. If you go on a full scholar ship you will have to maintain a G.P.A of 3.0 and that’s a (A) average. They offer that kind of scholar ship to one of the highest students in the school. The Other school I want to go to is Yale. I want to go to Yale because they actually have places in the school here you can go practice your skills and while you are doing that you can get your degree. Yale is better than LSU because LSU doesn’t let you do all in one. Yes Yale is an all White school and barley many blacks go to it but every one is receiving the same education. When you go to apply to Yale you will have a (n) G.P.A. of a 3.0 or higher nothing lower than an A. I could get that kind of grade but its going to be hard for me. I use to maintain an A average in elementary school and half of my middle school year. If you apply anywhere and you say you graduated from Yale everybody will be calling you. I choose this school because I want to have a chance to get out my neighborhood in be something in life. Yale offers students who want to be something in life a better life. LSU just going to get you out of your projects; Yale is going to get you out of the projects and put food on the table. That’s Why I Want to become a Lawyer. == []
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