Thanks Sarah,
In life you always have to fend for yourself and there are always idiots. Absolutely all situations have drawbacks.
Of course, that is no reason to let the idiots cut you down.
It seems to require courage of which I have in immense quantity.

Also, we are becoming a generation-free society though it is not fully visible yet.
The ongoing research on aging will eventually even everything out in the next twenty years or so.
E/D

I agree with Sarah that many of the younguns (those right out of college) will have a hard time relating to you. I doubt anyone will be rude (well, more rude than your average law student...hee!), but will naturally gravitate towards others their own age. And some think law school is just as much about the socializing experience (who you know helps you find a study group, gets you onto a journal, networks you into a summer job which may lead to your first lawyering gig, etc.) as the book learning. So you might have to make an extra effort to keep yourself in the loop.

OTOH, I found the older students to be much more calm and able to handle the stress of all the reading. They weren't the ones freaking out two nights before the final 'cuz they were too hungover to actually attend classes, or caught up in the who-just-dumped-whom drama, etc. And I think professors especially appreciated people with worldly experience. (Remembering some of classmates' comments during Employment Discrimination, for example, it is clear now that they had never been in the real world.)

I agree with Ken.

One good thing about being a lawyer is there is no mandatory retirement age for lawyers in private practice.

There are lawyers in their 90's who still go into the office and practice law. As long as their minds still work, why not? They love it.