alt Hacker NewsI’m a midlife career changer about to start law school at 45 after 20 years in tech, and right now I am trying to figure out if criminal defense or immigration is the field I want to pursue since I have relatively equal passion for each but neither keeps me up at night so to speak. What would you say I should be thinking about to reach answers that I am more likely to be happy with in terms of the choices that will determine the major contours of my career as an attorney? Or am I asking the wrong question and should instead be asking something else entirely?
That's funny because those were my two areas as well. The way that I look at it is that criminal law is much more intellectually challenging and interesting while immigration law is pretty straightforward but the application of the law to an unending variety of facts is incredibly interesting and challenging. I'd be happy to speak with you about this choice.