Colorado Technical University

What should I major in if I want to be a corporate attorney?

I just started my sophomore year of college, and I still can't seem to stick to one major in particular. I want whatever I major in to be something that I enjoy, but also has a practical application OUTSIDE of prepping me for law school, "just in case." So far I've either officially majored, or CONSIDERED majoring in: -Philosophy with a concentration on law and ethics -Psychology -Communications with a concentration on human communication -English with a concentration on teaching and lastly -Business (not sure if it would be management or administration, it just makes sense since i want to do corporate). The problem is, I'm not sure that all of these would work, simply because I REALLY want to go to USC, and they like for their students to have courses on their transcripts that "require lots of critical thinking and research." I know that Philosophy requires a TON of critical thinking, but I don't like it. Can someone PLEASE help me????

Public Comments

1. Contract law, Tax law, Business management, that should keep you busy for awhile.
2. You want the highest of marks in business and English to become a corporate attorney. Forget philosophy and ethics. Seriously. Corporate legal work is about business and how to create an impression of ethical compliance over a seething mire of competing interests and usually in a work environment that is not big on warm fuzzies. Don't know anyone who does it who actually likes it though I 'm told they make piles of the stuff.
3. First of all, attorneys need to know how to write very well. There is nothing worse than bad grammar in legal documents. So English would be very helpful, but a lot of people go into history, philosophy, business, etc. also. I know phil. is a pain, but you do need to have some logic skills, even if just to pass the LSAT.
4. You are in college? How about some courses along the lines of LAW? If these don't leap out at you from the available course lists you might try a counselor.
5. A very common path is to do pre-law political science for your undergraduate work an find a law school that specializes in the corporate area for graduate school. Business minor would also be good. But do you really want to be a corporate shill?