For those of you not studying law, perhaps you should look at why you are bothering to comment on behalf of those studying law.
It should strike you as irrational and illogical that you are speculating based on little, if any, fact and evidence and little, if any, experience. It's just as unreasonable as us speculating as to the daily tasks of the Prime Minister or highly paid CEO and assuming that they are all greedy, lazy, rude, dumb, selfish etc. Similarly, if we were to speculate on the usefulness of an environmental science degree. I'm sure you could wax lyrical on the impact it has on daily life and i'm sure those not studying it could come up with equally convincing reasons why it is a pointless waste of money.
The most important thing I've learnt while studying law is that in reality, it doesn't matter what we think, it matters how we apply the FACTS to the LAW. The law isn't always reasonable or fair. We need to get over the whole striving for fairness thing. Justice as it pertains to the rule of law yes, but personal justice will never be achieved in an adversarial system. Winner and Loser based on who argued the best. It's life.
Something to end on to indicate how the law can be absurd and unjust...
In 2009 in NSW and possibly other states, the defence of provocation due to homosexual advance is still available as a partial defence to unlawful homicide. I.e. No Murder conviction for stabbing a homosexual man for making a pass at you. Just manslaughter. Ridiculous and wrong. Doesn't work for homosexual women though... women don't defend their masculinity. How archaic.
I want to get involved in Law Reform. Clearly there's a grave need.
A lot of you clearly have NO IDEA of the realities of a career in law. It's more than just standing up in court in wigs and robes and defending a murder case. Do some research before making such strong comments based on uneducated opinions in an anonymous format.
NB- lawyers aren't all assholes who want to help some asshole get richer and off an assault charge or something like that. Lawyers help uphold the rule of law. A good lawyer realises that the role of a lawyer is to represent a person so that the individual is given a FAIR TRIAL. Plus, if you don't want to defend someone you know committed a heinous crime, then you don't have to.