Lawyer Women

Lawyeress.

I've had opurtunities to date lawyers but I always figured they'd not have enough time for me.

Just graduated from law school. Tons of beautiful women, it was incredible. In general, women in law school tend to be more independent and a little more "bitchy" (which in men is called assertive or aggressive). I have met some absolutely horrible women, but I suspect I would in almost any graduate school.
As a side note, my school rents out bars about once a month to have parties for students - I guess to encourage our social skills or some lame ass thing. I don't know how, but there was a group of about a half-dozen girls who didn't go to our school that would somehow find out and just show up and try (and usually succeed) to take one of us home. Pretty crazy.

Lawyer girls can be fun as they're often brainy, and many are pretty, but yes, they do tend to be a little messed up. Most of the crazy ones that I know have many problems as a result of being overmedicated.

For dating, it can be a wild and fun ride.

When they're walking their dogs, I tip my hat to the dog--I couldn't tell them apart.

A lot of the women lawyers, like men, are ambitious. Sometimes this means they won't give a shit about anything but advancing their careers. I've seen some fucked up female law students, but also many I wouldn't hesitate calling my friend. With that said, the proportion of slightly to very fucked up in the head is fairly high in law school as comparing to the general college education. Don't mind them, just do your own thing and watch them self-destruct.

So Ally was fairly representative?

Of course, you're as likely to be in the market for one as for the other...

The men are that way too. There is always SOMETHING fucked up about a person who is a lawyer.

You're over-generalizing, at least in my experience. Many women and men are fucked up to one degree or another, it's not just those who are lawyers. I'm married to a "woman lawyer" and she's 100% together (OK, maybe 99.9%), mentally and physically. As was said though, you'll find that lawyers are more likely to be ambitious, Type-A people. The women too. Some guys are turned off by it, I guess. Yes, some are screwed up too, but that goes across all professions I think.

As a lawyer myself let me offer a thought or two. First, no one here has yet defined in what way he has found women lawyers to be fucked up, yet many have voiced agreement. What are you agreeing on? Is it attitude (and if so, on what issue/s?), or behavior? It could very well be that someone has some quirky thoughts of his own about women that the one or two women lawyers he has dealt with chose to call him on. He then interprets this as meaning that, as a class of people, women lawyers are fucked up (when in fact some self-analysis is in order), yet others just join in with expressions of support.

That said, it is true that women (and men) lawyers are ambitious. Combine that with the fact that law is a demanding and competitive profession and you find that those who do well tend to have little time for bullshit or a whole lot of gentility. What this generally means is that women lawyers, who are analytical and detail oriented by training and practice, will definitely seek to hold their men accountable and will take them to task more readily over all types of things, more often than other women.

Whether this is a good or bad thing is each man's call. C'est la vie. I personally do not like to date women lawyers because the demands for accountability are often too much for me to bear on a day to day basis, and because they can get pretty intense pretty quicky.

I've never dated a lawyer woman (most lawyer women are my senior), but I have learned one thing from working at the law school computer help desk:

When a lawyer woman's computer breaks down, don't fuck with them, and be ready for your head to be taken off if you tell them you can't help them with their problem

Man, with that kind of outlook on life, I bet you are the life of the party.

I know plenty of screwed-up female lawyers. I also know plenty of screwed-up male lawyers, and lots of screwed-up nonlawyers. Most people are screwed-up one way or another. Lawyers no more so, or less so, than anyone else. To the original poster, did you ever wonder if there's a bit of a self-selection bias in your data pool? I'm no statistician, but I'm guessing your friend and her immediate circle may not be the most scientifically reliable sampling group for judging all female lawyers.