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Technical subjects & Law

evercloserunion · 2008-12-23 17:24:14

I know at least two people who studied engineering and other such technical subjects who recently took their FE1s. They told me they knew many others like them who had gotten quite far in various big law firms. Henry Murdoch, author of the authoritative dictionary on Irish law, was a chartered engineer. Lord Denning MR,…

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I know at least two people who studied engineering and other such technical subjects who recently took their FE1s. They told me they knew many others like them who had gotten quite far in various big law firms.

Henry Murdoch, author of the authoritative dictionary on Irish law, was a chartered engineer. Lord Denning MR, one of the most famous English Law Lords in modern history, originally studied maths.

Are any of you engineers, or students/practitioners of related technical or scientific subjects, considering careers in law? What do you think is the reason for the attraction?

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