Foreign Student wanting advice regarding a JD and US visas

HappyAlumnus
Sat, 26 Dec 2015 00:09:33 +0000

JDApplicant, your drive is admirable. If you want to work full-time and go to law school at night, you’d significantly narrow your school options: Georgetown and Fordham are two of the few reputable law schools that have night programs. Are you sure that you want to do that, resulting in multiple strikes against you in a tough job market?

Why not just go to a regular JD program (which will result in many more, and particularly many more top-tier, schools that you could attend) and work in the summer? Summer associate jobs in NYC pay prorated associate salaries, which is a lot of money for not much work, and they are the typical route for getting jobs at blue-chip law firms. Night school is a much riskier bet.