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Against all advice I am considering law school. Based on a decade of experience, I want to work as a lawyer for the cannabis industry when I graduate. Either regionally helping people get licenses, IP, etc., or nationally helping to write better laws, or merge state and federal frameworks when that happens. Not particularly interested in doing criminal stuff. I get how fluffy this sounds - that's not me. Not sure where to start though. My network tells me that its a growth field, but no one knows anything specific. Is this something I can take into account when choosing schools? Right now I'm thinking I apply to schools in states with big industries (and ideally outside of big legal markets, cause I don't have the grades for T1 schools), and aim to do business licensing and compliance stuff to build a client base. But I'm wondering if there's some other path I'm not considering. Is there any school that's lower-ranked but specialized for like, ag patents? Or is this something I could do as a government lawyer? Public interest maybe? Does this stuff touch environmental law? I don't really know what those big picture disciplines translate to in practice and its limiting my imagination. Is this significantly stupider than going to law school in general?
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Hell yeah thanks everyone. The more people I talked to without hearing "no, don't, run" the more nervous I was getting that I wasn't getting good advice. The only lawyers I know well enough to ask this stuff in person have had kinda weird (albeit successful) career paths. evilweasel posted:just because you like to smoke weed doesn't mean weed law will be an interesting career. you will be doing some other kind of law, just with a weed company as a client. No, it is, just hoping to do something with the knowledge I already have. Because (and this is probably the bigger problem) I'm not confident in this career being worth the time if I don't have some sort of leg up over the field, even if it is interesting to me on its own. Pook Good Mook posted:I struggle to see how "weed law" isn't really just some flavor of either business, property, or criminal law, depending on where you practice. Emily Spinach posted:Tax, obvs. Thanks, that's kind of what I was wondering. Jean-Paul Shartre posted:Think back a half decade and think of how the cannabis landscape was then and compare it to now. Now speed up that acceleration for the coming half-decade. What are the odds that any of (a) the legislation still needs to be written, (b) the lobbying space looks like it does now, and/or (c) the on-the-ground actors are still looking for help with barriers to entry, versus them being established and so having less legal work to do? Honestly, pretty great? Maybe not (b). But I see (c) holding steady in most states that have it already and (a) increasing a lot. That's the motivation. But again this is all from a very limited perspective inside the industry, which is why I'm asking in the first place, and if it's not guaranteed I'm even going to end up working in that area then it seems very not worth rolling the dice on.
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Muir posted:And even if the work still needs to be done then, what are the odds that you as a fresh graduate from some random law school gets to be involved the way you hope? Consider me well-convinced that for me, anyway, pretty low. But I'm wondering now, do y'all just not get to choose what you do for a living? What's the dynamic there? That sounds miserable lol
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