Although I love the "don't be a lawyer" video and all the associated jokes, I was genuinely saddened recently to hear a lawyer advise an aspiring law student not to enter our profession. So, to offer a contrary view, here are some great things about what we do: * We learn about how the world really works. The law is the way human beings have crystallized millennia of interactions into rules we can build our societies around. If you want to understand the deepest aspects of hu