A Question for real lawyers: what do you really do?

Wow, I hope you are a 4.0 student with top 5% LSAT scores if you desire entrance into the University of Michigan Law School. If that does not describe you, perhaps look to Wayne State or University of Detroit College of Law, both excellent schools. Lawyers are a diverse group. If you like trials, well, the criminal law may be for you. Starting out as a deputy district attorney or even on the corporation counsel of a large city could put you in a court room almost everyday. If you want a more "office bound" job you will work for a large firm and do endless research, check documents prepared by paralegals, write the first drafts of briefs that will then be taken by senior attorneys, changed, and used as their work product, meet with clients to add billable hours, etc. If you counting on Law and Order as your example you better stick to Criminal Law and recognize the pay is good but not even 50% of what tort lawyers and lawyers in huge firms may earn. As far as U. of M. Law School rethink this one unless, as I say, you are 4.0 or at least 3.8 with many AP classes and a top 5% LSAT in the year you take the test. Can you raise your LSAT score...YES. Start studying now, years in advance, and in the summer for the next two years attend the seminars put on by Kaplan and others. You can raise your score substantially if you do this...not many go to this degree of planning.