Save Money By Going to a Cheap State Law School & Getting An LLM From a Top Law School Forum
-
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:18 pm
Save Money By Going to a Cheap State Law School & Getting An LLM From a Top Law School
This seems like the ideal solution
- nealric
- Posts: 4281
- Joined: Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:53 am
Re: Save Money By Going to a Cheap State Law School & Getting An LLM From a Top Law School
Unfortunately, employers don’t view an LLM from a top school as remotely equivalent. Admissions are comparatively lax. Outside of tax, top school LLMs are targeted at foreign lawyers.
- Dcc617
- Posts: 2735
- Joined: Mon Oct 13, 2014 3:01 pm
Re: Save Money By Going to a Cheap State Law School & Getting An LLM From a Top Law School
That's an awful idea.
Law school is not like undergrad.
Law school is not like undergrad.
-
- Posts: 4451
- Joined: Fri Feb 16, 2018 8:58 am
Re: Save Money By Going to a Cheap State Law School & Getting An LLM From a Top Law School
this. Plus, any respectable state school is still going to cost a lot of money (the state school I attended currently charges $31,836/yr tuition in-state (total COA estimate = $54,120), LLMs themselves are pretty expensive, and then you have the opportunity cost of losing 1 year of income/job experience/progression (the latter isn't so big a deal - if someone is deciding whether to apply now or a year later to get better scores I'd always say apply a year later - but it matters to some people, especially since you will have incurred law school debt by then and be running up interest).nealric wrote:Unfortunately, employers don’t view an LLM from a top school as remotely equivalent. Admissions are comparatively lax. Outside of tax, top school LLMs are targeted at foreign lawyers.
- cavalier1138
- Posts: 8007
- Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:01 pm
Re: Save Money By Going to a Cheap State Law School & Getting An LLM From a Top Law School
In what way?gokira2012 wrote:This seems like the ideal solution
Want to continue reading?
Register now to search topics and post comments!
Absolutely FREE!
Already a member? Login
- VirginiaFan
- Posts: 92
- Joined: Fri Apr 14, 2017 4:16 pm
Re: Save Money By Going to a Cheap State Law School & Getting An LLM From a Top Law School
I think this used to be a common thing. Justice Powell went to W&L and then Harvard for an LLM for the prestige boost. But yes, I agree with others, this is a bad plan if your goal is gainful employment.
- nealric
- Posts: 4281
- Joined: Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:53 am
Re: Save Money By Going to a Cheap State Law School & Getting An LLM From a Top Law School
Law degrees used to be considered bachelor’s degrees until around the 1960s. LLMs were a way to show advance study at the time. Likely had nothing to do with his desire for a prestige boost.VirginiaFan wrote:I think this used to be a common thing. Justice Powell went to W&L and then Harvard for an LLM for the prestige boost. But yes, I agree with others, this is a bad plan if your goal is gainful employment.