Should I give up an LSE offer to afford law school in the US

[alwaysamom]

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I haven’t heard that the Canadian legal market is any less saturated

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<p>The legal employment situation in Canada isn’t even remotely close to that in the U.S.</p>

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Since there are lots of unemployed lawyers in the U.S. to hire cheaply, why would an American law firm go to the hassle to sponsor a work visa for a Canadian?

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<p>It happens more frequently than you may think. Some NY firms participate in the Canadian OCI recruitment, although fewer these days than, say, ten years ago. There are Canadian students every year who end up at U.S. firms, from both Canadian and U.S. schools.</p>

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many law firms in the U.S. and Canada are outsourcing work to an army of English-speakers in India (just like the call-center industry).

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<p>Many in the U.S. perhaps. It’s still an anomaly in Canada and very few firms or in-house departments are outsourcing work internationally.</p>

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I think you are dreaming if you think an American law school is going to give a scholarship to a Canadian.

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<p>Again, it happens every year in every admissions cycle.</p>