MidlifeAspie

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You may have answered this before but I am lazy so I will ask again.  Are you going to stay in the insurance industry as a lawyer after you finish law school? 

Also your thoughts on an idea.  Many places are so worried about liability they restrict access so I was thinking of some sort of waiver I could give a property owner to ease their minds based on they way they do things around here with hunting.  What are your thoughts on this from an insurance companies/lawyer perspective

Will depend on the money.  Insurance law seems rather boring, but is probably the easiest job I could get.  If I can get a job that pays well enough and leaves me with enough free time to pursue the things I like on a pro bono basis (Civil rights, indigent services, environmental, innocence project, hippie liberal causes in general) then I would have to think long and hard about that.

Liability waivers are common, pretty easy to put together, and generally very effective.  I don't 100% understand your question though.  You want to give a property owner a liability waiver that you have signed when hunting on their property?

Not hunting that was an example, here if you get hurt hunting on someones property the rules of liability are different.  Around here people are paranoid about liability and there are lots of great places to take the dog out or explore but they are off limits people won't even consider letting you on the property citing insurance regulations.  I was wondering how hard it would be to have fill in the blank waivers and if insurance companies would accept them without a problem.

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An insurance company would be happy to use a liability waiver as evidence that they are not responsible for an injury, but as to whether they would advise their policyholder that they are okay with people exposing themselves to potential danger ... Probably not.  Insurance companies are extremely conservative.  I would think the harder issue to overcome would be convincing the landowner that the waiver would protect them.  It almost certainly would.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tucker-max/law-school_b_2713943.html

The "Why you shouldn't go to law school" articles are absolutely rampant.  I can provide you with 30 more if this is something you are actually considering.  For many people it's a terrible idea, and everyone should make that decision with their eyes open and aware of the potential downside.  2011 graduates have a 60% employment rate right now, at least in jobs that require a JD.  Yet, almost 100% of graduates leave with some kind of debt, most in the 6-figure range.  If you don't graduate from a top 10 school (think Harvard, Yale, Columbia) then you had better graduate in the top half of your class if you want to obtain a job that can pay off your debt load.  (Tuition inflation is partly responsible for the high cost of legal fees btw)

So, yes, going to law school is a bad idea for at least half of everyone who attends.  Far too many people attend for the wrong reason, and not everyone can excel.  It's kind of sad, but a risk that one takes.  Fortunately I am in the top 10% of my class, and as long as I stay there I will have my choice of six-figure offers in any state I should choose to reside.

Speaking of poorly made educational decisions, what can you do with half a Geology degree?  Overall, do you think it is a good or bad idea to attend college if you can't manage to finish?  Was the debt worth it, or were you at a cheap school (community college, third tier toilet, etc)?  You can't apply to law school until you have an undergraduate degree, so if this is a route you are serious about you will need to apply yourself in the short term and finish that up, then you can focus on the LSAT.  If you need any advice, let me know.  I excelled both in obtaining my undergraduate degree and taking the LSAT.  I'm happy to give you some pointers.

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Hi TA. Welcome back.

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Whatcha so interested in here TA?

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Whatcha so interested in here TA?

Stuff generally happens in this thread

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Not in the past 26 months or so

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Not in the past 26 months or so

Not really, no

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Nope, not factual either.

Jesus approves of bestiality?

Quite plainly not, but do you think God approves of false accusations?

There is no God, but if there was do you really think he would approve of your mounting that manatee?  I think it is probably cruel to the manatee.  Does the manatee know you are on here ogling women's breasts and assorted phalluses with shiny metal rings on them?  Does she know what you are doing on collarme and that felching site?  Can a manatee cry?  Do they feel disappointment?  These are the trying questions of our day.  It would have been so much easier living during the days when Jesus walked the earth.  Be Like Him.....

There is a God, and you will be held accountable for every word you've said by God.

God can lick my slimy brown asshole.

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