I believe the US has a surplus of lawyers. Between that and the huge debt burden generally associated with law school, I would discourage my kid from going that route.
Should my one kid go into accounting, she can have my mother's job and eventually mine. Mom is likely to retire as a CPA about the time that DD will graduate college. I'd just as soon she took up something like engineering, though. The accounting world is too subject to (both elected and appointed) political whims, but I know nothing of engineering, so can imagine it's better.
