I am not going into for the money, I am hoping to help change some of the really stupid laws. How I have no clue. I am not going to do the normal firm thing, as I can do that. If you want I would love to have a non-public chat with you about what your view was. I have meet very few tech lawyers.
So I am just turning 31 at the end of the month. I spent 12 years working in the tech area. I worked for mostly colleges and universities. When the economy started to tank in 2008, I found myself laid off. I spent time finishing up my BA degree and trying boost my marketability. I held 2 AS degrees in computer programming, and network engineering and support (from a brick and mortar community college). I then added another AA in business administration, then a BA in Political Science. With the job market in 2008-2009 being very bad, i was out of work for a long time. I picked up a contract job here and there, but no full-time employment. Then I got a call to do a network setup for a small legal firm 5 attorneys. I did the job and found out for the most part attorneys do not know technology, something I had seen from my past dealing with attorney at the schools I worked at.
We more and more technology today driving the law, it seemed that there is vacume, lawyers do not want to do technology, and techies don't like the law. Right now for the most part it is like oil and water they just do not mix.
Your post states your in Germany, I had the joy of studying in Italy and France last year, and learned that unlike the US most EU countries only require a 5 year degree (no lsat) or selective admission requirements. If I were you I would look at getting into law if you can handle it. I am in my second to last term as law student, here I am making a $150K gamble on my law school degree (no undergraduate debt, just law school). With the new E.U. privacy directives, and with the new rounds of laws passing on the internet, we need more skilled IT people to know what the technology is. I am hoping I can mix the oil and water in myself and make money off my skills. I don't know if I will or not, however as for you it would only be a 5 year investment with lower cost then it was for me, I would think about it. I think we are going to see more and more need for the IT lawyer as technology becomes part of the norm, and everyone has it. It is a gamble, lawyers don't like change and IT people for the most part think the laws are dumb on technology. I have started to meet with a lot of attorneys that dying to know what they need to do. In the U.S. we have e-discovery and it is a killer on companies.
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I am not going into for the money, I am hoping to help change some of the really stupid laws. How I have no clue. I am not going to do the normal firm thing, as I can do that. If you want I would love to have a non-public chat with you about what your view was. I have meet very few tech lawyers.
So I am just turning 31 at the end of the month. I spent 12 years working in the tech area. I worked for mostly colleges and universities. When the economy started to tank in 2008, I found myself laid off. I spent time finishing up my BA degree and trying boost my marketability. I held 2 AS degrees in computer programming, and network engineering and support (from a brick and mortar community college). I then added another AA in business administration, then a BA in Political Science. With the job market in 2008-2009 being very bad, i was out of work for a long time. I picked up a contract job here and there, but no full-time employment. Then I got a call to do a network setup for a small legal firm 5 attorneys. I did the job and found out for the most part attorneys do not know technology, something I had seen from my past dealing with attorney at the schools I worked at. We more and more technology today driving the law, it seemed that there is vacume, lawyers do not want to do technology, and techies don't like the law. Right now for the most part it is like oil and water they just do not mix. Your post states your in Germany, I had the joy of studying in Italy and France last year, and learned that unlike the US most EU countries only require a 5 year degree (no lsat) or selective admission requirements. If I were you I would look at getting into law if you can handle it. I am in my second to last term as law student, here I am making a $150K gamble on my law school degree (no undergraduate debt, just law school). With the new E.U. privacy directives, and with the new rounds of laws passing on the internet, we need more skilled IT people to know what the technology is. I am hoping I can mix the oil and water in myself and make money off my skills. I don't know if I will or not, however as for you it would only be a 5 year investment with lower cost then it was for me, I would think about it. I think we are going to see more and more need for the IT lawyer as technology becomes part of the norm, and everyone has it. It is a gamble, lawyers don't like change and IT people for the most part think the laws are dumb on technology. I have started to meet with a lot of attorneys that dying to know what they need to do. In the U.S. we have e-discovery and it is a killer on companies.