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<p>I agree. There are lots and lots of foreign attorneys who come to the US for LLM degrees and who then get admitted in US jurisdictions. Generally they have been studying English since elementary school and they speak it very well. And of course they speak their native language really well too.</p>
<p>If a (BIGLAW) law firm really needed to hire someone for language skills, there’s no reason not to hire one of these people. It’s not like the law firm is the State Department and all workers need to pass security checks. </p>
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<p>I agree with this too. You can’t rely on what the law schools themselves claim. I’m glad to know that fallenchemist has chatted with actual attorneys, even if they are just anonymous people on the internet. That’s a step in the right direction.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that the education trap is extremely seductive. It lets you defer entry into the brutal job market of the real world, promises greatly expanded employment opportunities, and lets you spend a few years doing challenging work feeling that you are bettering yourself. All for no money down.</p>
<p>Anyway, common sense says that with the possible exception of a place like Yale, a certain percentage of graduates of one of these programs will not find suitable employment. Either because they do poorly; or because they are not presentable; or some other reason. fallenchemist seems to think that percentage is zero. But how could he know it? If the schools themselves made that claim, they are almost surely lying. My guess is that these schools are playing up their success stories and not mentioning the failures. </p>
<p>That’s the key question for any professional program – what is the placement rate?</p>