You don't need to "argue for a living" to be an attorney - in fact, if you attempt to do that you will not be making any kind of living at all. A huge part of being an attorney is negotiation. Most cases regardless of the field never make it to court. If you want to argue or debate for a living, go be a politician.

I highly recommend you do some research on what attorneys actually do every day. It's not like what you see on TV. There's certainly nothing wrong with considering some future careers but you're a very long way from having to make those sorts of decisions. Right now your grades and preparation for college are the most important things you can control to keep your options open.

Lawyers need to be confident. if you're asking this then no.

Don't go "Hollywood" on us now. It's not a direct argument in most cases but a counter with the facts as the law applies in criminal law. With that in mind you bring in expert witnesses to refute testimony of the defense if you are the prosecuting attorney. There are many different specialties of law. If you want to do this you'll need to decide which specialty. You will go to college for six years to obtain a law degree. Then have to pass the bar exam in that state.

You may want to consider real estate law as you will always get paid, and less drama. Closings and foreclosures w/be what you do.

If you want to go through some of the procedures see this website:

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While you're on vacation get your mom to take you to some trials at the court house this summer, and see first hand what goes on. It's pretty interesting. Go to some criminal trials,civil case lawsuits, and divorce courts.

Oh man, where to begin with answering this question. The short answer is your mom is right, trust your mom. Here a few random thoughts about your question. Dentists and pharmacists make more money then lawyers on average. There is a shortage of doctors and dentists. Lawyers are a dime a dozen. For example there are 53 dental schools in the US with small class sizes of no more than 50. Harvard's dental school only admits like 20 a year. There are over 200 ABA approved law schools with at least 10 more in the works, including non-ABA law schools which probably adds another 50-100 law schools, class sizes are around 300. So roughly you have 2,650 dentists graduating a year, and you have 60,000 law degrees awarded every year, add unapproved schools you get another 15,000-30,000 additional law degrees. The lawyer glut gets worse every year, yet 10 more new law schools are set to open, and you can now get a law degree over the internet, Concord School of Law. Almost any C or D student can find some law school to accept their tuition money from the easy to get impossible to get rid of student loans, look at Appalchian School of Law, Birmingham School of Law, Nashville School of Law, Massachusetts School of Law as examples of law schools with low or no admission standards. The field of law is in decline.

Also, most people like to argue but that does not mean anything about whether you will like being a lawyer. To be a good at law school and the practice of law, you need to be have the following skills, can you sit in a library for hours, days, weeks, and months reading dry technical books, if you say yes cannot get enough of it, then you might enjoy law school. Everyone in law school will be like you, self-centered, petty, study maniacs, that like to argue, most women in law school are ugly and the ones that are plain think they are supermodels, the only thing less attractive than their appearance is their personality.

I could go on about the Craigslist ads offering $30,000, for licensed attorney jobs, with 150 applicants. You do not see that if you are a dentist or a pharmacist. Also, law school has gotten insanely expensive ten yrs ago, $20,000 a year for my top twenty law school, now the tuition is around $45,000 a year, what a rip off. Then after you leave you learn they taught you nothing about actually practicing law. Many law school professors have little or no experience practicing law,they just write obscure articles. Can you imagine a dentist graduating and not being taught how to pull a tooth or perform a root canal?

Law is crap, unless you are a super die hard study machine freak that gets into Harvard, Stanford, or Yale or you have family connections, such as a wealthy parent or one that runs a law firm, law school is just not worth it.