11 Celebrities You’d Never Guess Have Law Degrees

Order within the courtroom! Rebel Wilson, Gerard Butler and extra stars tried their hand at finding out and practicing law earlier than they made it massive in Hollywood.

Earlier than solidifying his place amongst among the hottest names within the film business, Butler held a excessive place within the legislation society at his Scottish college. After graduating from the College of Glasgow with honors in 1992, he fell right into a fellowship with a prestigious legislation agency in Edinburgh earlier than finally following his coronary heart and pursuing an performing profession.

In October 2018, the Angel Has Fallen star revealed on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert that he spent a mixed seven years getting ready to turn into a lawyer. “Simply the correct amount of time to mess all of it up,” Butler joked on the time.

Wilson, for her half, tried to stability out the 2 pathways she dreamed of following whereas finding out on the College of New South Wales in Australia. The Isn’t It Romantic actress mirrored on her expertise finding out legislation whereas additionally being a working actor throughout a Might 2019 look on The Late Late Show With James Corden.

“I’ve by no means practiced [law] for cash,” Wilson defined on the time. “A legislation diploma is 5 years complete and I used to be already on Australian tv by, like, 12 months two. I play lots of dumb characters so folks had been very confused about what I used to be doing within the contract legislation examination … Nevertheless it took me so lengthy to get into legislation college, it’s a must to examine actually laborious, so I assumed I could as effectively end it despite the fact that I used to be already type of well-known.”

Whereas some stars adopted by means of on their intensive research till the very finish, others discovered the examine just a little too difficult. Rashida Jones had lofty ambitions of turning into a lawyer whereas she was a scholar at Harvard College, however admitted to The Unbiased a number of years later that she lost faith in the law in the course of the notorious O.J. Simpson homicide trial within the Nineteen Nineties.

“He obtained off and I couldn’t consider it,” the Angie Tribeca star defined in February 2014. “I assumed what’s the purpose of spending the following eight years in class if the justice system is that damaged?”

Scroll all the way down to see which celebrities have pursued and obtained legislation levels!