Whats one thing they don teach in law school that they should?
Law school teaches you maybe two percent of what you need to know to practice law in the real world. My clients are everyone from the kennel worker to the ASPCA president and everybody in between. They don’t teach you in law school how to deal with people who are not lawyers. Law school does not teach you how to write a contract, how to do business transactions. Probably the most important thing, no matter what kind of law you practice, is learning how to write. And as much as law school likes to think they teach you how to do that, they really don’t. Q: Any other advice? A: If you really want to work in a nonprofit, it’s best to get a wide range of experience. Because there are limited resources, you’re frequently asked to do more things than a person in the same position at a corporation would do. You’re called upon to do a lot more. I started out doing just license agreements, and I ended up doing contracts for every department of the organization. We don’t have a support staff. We
