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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m dual qualified, started in the UK and then took the bar exam here. The LLB doesn’t in itself qualify you to practice law in England. Kid would need a further year of law school and then 2 years of trainee-ship in a law firm. If the end goal is practising in the US and to do a JD in the US, I don’t see any real value to it, and it might be very boring and repetitive as they would end up doing 6 years of law. If the plan is to qualify in the UK as outlined above and then move to the US and take bar, skipping the JD, that is doable but kid will find it much harder to find a job in the US because most firms only want to hire JDs. I don’t think a UK law degree on its own is of much interest to international law firms. Even being dual qualified, as I am, is of limited interest! If kid really wants to study in the UK, I suggest something other than law as undergrad. [/quote]

Curious. So you did a 3 year LLB with an extra year (not working?) and two year paid traineeship? Guessing total tuition  for that (in current fees) would be $36,000 plus cost of the extra year and you started earning money three years before an American graduate? You’re probably working with American lawyers who paid about $350,000 in tuition fees and studied way longer. Do you have a view on whether which system produces better lawyers ? Or about the same? [/quote]

I actually didn’t do law undergrad, so I had to do 2 years of law school instead of the one I would have had with an LLB, so 5 years of education instead of the 4 in the US. Those two years were paid for plus stipend by the law firm I then trained at, which is common if you train at a big firm. The pay for the training 2 years is less than 1st year associates get here, but of course we don’t have any debt.

I have met and worked with many many very good American lawyers so there must be something working with the system here, but I think the English system is better for training and also for allowing you time to really try out different areas of law in practice . The LLB is more similar to the JD as it is an academic study of law, but the mandatory year afterwards is very practical, and then obviously you have the two years in the firm where you do rotations into different departments and then decide after that where you want to work afterwards. [/quote]

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