I-Search Paper on Becoming a Lawyer
When I first started trying to figure out what to write my I-search paper on I really didn’t have a remote clue what to write about. Then, we went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for MEA break. My aunt who lives there works at a local hospital as a medical risk manager. One of the many things she does as a medical risk manager is she deals lawsuits against the hospital. She was talking about cases she had to deal with and I thought this would be an interesting subject on which to write a paper. It has always been in the back of my head to be a lawyer. I’ve thought it would be interesting to be in the court room proving my case by showing some law or evidence they didn’t know about. The feeling that you just proved someone wrong would be awesome. So I thought why not make it my I-search topic. There are many different areas you can go into when you have a law degree. The two I was most interested in were medical malpractice and criminal law. Before you can go to Law school, you need to start off with getting a Bachelor’s degree. It is recommended for going into medical malpractice to get your Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in pre-law, or business; but it is not required. You might want to study medicine to help with terminology and understanding how accidents happen. For criminal law you would probably want to study criminal justice. Once you have your Bachelors’ degree you need to take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). The LSAT measures how well your reading and verbal reasoning skills are (lsac.org). It is one of the items law schools use to determine which student they will admit to their school. A couple other things they will look at is your undergraduate grade-point average and what you studied while getting your B.A. Once you have gotten a good score on the LSAT you need to apply to Law School, preferably one that is approved by the American Bar Association. This is where it really splits. If you want to go into medical malpractice since most schools don’t offer
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