A helpful note

Here's a brief message about law school provided by a current law student: "The hardest thing about law school is not the vocabulary (all you need to do is get a very good law dictionary like Black's (6th Ed.)) or the concepts (though some of them are quite hard and counter-intuitive). What busts the mosts brain cells is the application of those concepts to the facts of a case. Law schools almost universally use some form of the Socratic method which forces you to wade thorugh some very turgid and occasionally poorly written appellate decisions on your own and reason out how certain legal concepts were applied by judges who often times have agendas to push. In short, you need to be able to critically analyze argumentative prose. Precisely the sort of things analytically rigorous disciplines like philosophy (taking a formal logic class will also help you with the Analytical Reasoning section of the LSAT), linguistics, literary criticism, or history (when done right) can do. Government/poli-sci, and economics courses provide you with the broad background against which our legal system operates, and far more than vocabulary, gives one insight into the policy issues that underly judicial opinions. I think that's what surprised me most about judicial opinions: that while they worked within the constraints of precedent and statutory limitations, judges frequently jumped through hoops by stretching legal doctrines to acheive policy goals."