Originally Posted by Unregistered

More exciting and closer to what you actually studied in law school - analysing cases and constructing legal arguments. A lot of people study law because they are attracted to litigation work (which is what people/mass media associates lawyers with), not corporate work.

Litigators are generally respected more than corporate lawyers by clients because you're the expert who will come save them from trouble. Corp lawyers are often seen as a necessary evil to make a deal happen, or sometimes even an obstacle to pushing a deal through.

If you're good at it, liti can be a financially rewarding career too. Plus it's more stable and less susceptible to being made redundant because your practice area is down. Corp is booming now but ask those corp lawyers who were let go in the last financial crisis.