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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Math skills challenged as a lawyer?

Take a look at this case from Judge Posner:

http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2013/D10-28/C:12-2682:J:Posner:aut:T:fnOp:N:1230739:S:0

If you are going into law simply to evade math and science skills, you are avoiding what you need to know.
More and more areas of law are being influenced by the growth of technology; should you really avoid developing these skills; math skills are needed and can be developed just like any language:

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/the-myth-of-im-bad-at-math/280914/
"Basic ability in math is not the product of good genes, but hard work."

 And this study will help your LSAT prep, too:

 http://joshblackman.com/blog/2013/10/28/which-undergraduate-majors-score-the-highest-on-lsat/
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