This guide is designed to help you get started in your search for legal career opportunities. In the book, the author promotes the legal profession as a career option for high school graduates and anyone else looking for a change. However, as this book illustrates, there are at least seven unique professional paths in law. It also addresses unstated issues, such as 'How much do lawyers really make?' Moreover, it focuses on the human side of becoming a lawyer as well as presenting everything you need to know about training to be a lawyer. What are the characteristics of a competent lawyer, and why are they so important? How does one go about pursuing a legal career? And no introduction to the legal profession would be complete without a look at its illustrious past, which dates back to the Knights Templar.