What effect can having bad credit have on an attorney being hired by a firm?
Sunday, September 13th, 2009 at
1:11 am
Should a person with what would commonly considered buy antibiotics bad credit even bother taking the LSAT?
crazyjester9 is indeed crazy. An attorney is usually in a position requiring a high level of confidentiality and trust. In addition, many law firms hold client funds and property in escrow.
Being an attorney is extremely detail oriented. If someone is careless about managing their own finances, how can they be trusted to be diligent with their work for a client?
Usually credit checks are only important in jobs requiring the handling of large sums of money or those requiring a security clearance. I don’t see how it would have too much of an effect on someone wanting to be a lawyer.
****Edit for Wildbirdie****
While your points are valid enough, I’ll still point out that there is no definitive link between credit worthiness and character. Pre-employment credit checks are supplemental to the rest of the background check done on prespective employees. Very rarely will an otherwise qualified candidate be denied employment due to bad credit alone.
Competition for jobs any job is stiff. The chosen applicant is the best of the best. If you are the only applicant then bad credit history might not be a problem. But when there are a few great applicants that bad credit history could be the reason to scratch you from the list.
If being a lawyer is what you truly want then go for it. That bad credit will ruin your chances for student loans so hopefully you can pay your own tuition
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