Over the course of my career thus far, I’ve spent enough on corporate legal bills to put an entire law firm’s children through college.

As I continue to dump dollars into legal costs – papering new deals, putting old ones to bed – I’ve started to think there should be some sort of law school equivalent of life experience credits.

Because if time working on contracts counted as sufficient prerequisite, I’m pretty sure I could by now totally ace the bar exam equivalent of the GED.