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Lawyer
 * Brian Merino**


 * __[|Tasks]__**
 * Lawyers help clients to file for licenses and tells the clients their rights. Lawyers defend people.** They are also advocates and advisors. Lawyers specialize in many areas such as bankruptcy, probate, international, elder, or environmental law. **Lawyers need to develop proficiency in writing, reading, analyzing, and thinking logically.**

__**[|Level of education required]**__
 * It takes 7 years to become a lawyer (4 years undergrad study, followed by 3 years of high school). Licensure is required (Need to take LSAT** **and BAR exam)**. **Law students must have a bachelors degree.** Courses in english, foreign languages, public speaking, government, philosophy, history, economics, mathematics, and computer sciences.

[|Salary]
 * Lawyers make anywhere from between $48,000-$108,500. Lawyers make 60k-90k their first year. The peak average for a lawyer is $130,000.** All graduates make $68,500, private practice lawyers make $108,500, business lawyers make $69,100, government lawyers make $50,000, Academic/Judicial workship lawyers make $48,000. **A benefit of being a lawyer is that the recession will not affect you, in other words, being a lawyer is "recession proof"**


 * __[|Future Prospects/ Chances of getting this job]__**
 * The chances of getting this job are very high. The reason the chances are very high is because their are many spots open for future lawyers. Lawyers held about 759,200 jobs in 2008. Lawyer jobs are very open because their are always more spots for lawyers. The reason for this is because not many people want to go to college for so long, instead, they want a job they can get after they've finished their four years of college.**

Lawyers work a total of **55 hours a week**. Lawyers usually **spend 8 hours a day working, Monday-Sunday.**
 * __[|Average hours spent on the job]__**

[|**__High School Expectations__**] An **internship is recommended**, also, you **must graduate from high school.** Also, you are **expected to participate in a lot of clubs, and also you're expected to do good in school.**

[|College or other education/Training] You **must go to law school**. You need to take the **LSATS, BAR exam, also, licensure is required.** **Requirements vary from each state,** this is saying that if you got a law degree in new york, and you wanted to be a lawyer in Maine, you need to pass a whole other BAR test. **Different states= different laws.**