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No, I am saying that when someone tells you that a J.D. is a "versatile" degree, they are probably trying to sell you on the proposition of paying for a legal education.

There are, however, thousands of newly-minted law school graduates who, upon finding themselves largely unemployable, would in fact say that they wasted 1) hundreds of thousands of tuition dollars and 2) three years of their lives they can never get back earning a degree that makes them less desirable for non-legal jobs than their competition who a) now have an additional three years' work experience advantage on them, and b) aren't financially crippled by astronomic levels of student loan debt that isn't dischargeable in bankruptcy.

And to pre-empt the next point, this is not to say that every law school graduate regrets his/her decision. But a surprising number of them do...a number corresponding to the 80% or so of law school graduates who, upon graduation, cannot obtain employment that enables them to establish independent households, families, and simultaneously service the massive student debt they have accumulated.

They don't call it "the law school scam" for nothing, you know.