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Your Legal Studies degree is pretty worthless as a precursor to law school, unless you work as a paralegal for about 5 years and then apply to law school.
Get a BS in Economics, History, Psychology, Math, etc. Do well on the LSAT exam, pay lots of money and don’t plan on making the kind of money that was possible 20 years ago.
There is a glut of lawyers on the market. The availability of low cost on-line forms, etc. has taken away much of the bread and butter work for lawyers.
You would likely earn far more as a good paralegal than a starting lawyer.
I know that I pay my closings (Real Estate) and wills and trusts paralegals approx 100K. I can get all the first and second year associates I want from good law schools for 45k. The paralegals then have to teach the new associates the real nuts and bolts of law work–forms, filing, calendar tracking, etc.
This advice is from someone who has been in this for years and has convinced his children not to come into the family profession.