http://www.llm-guide.com/board/2242 en Re: Seeking advice: Working in Europe after LLM - LLM GUIDE Discussion Board Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:45:00 +0200 http://www.llm-guide.com/board/2242/last#2242 Scott, To save you possible anguish, I offer this friendly and polite advice. First get some experience in the US and make your degree worth something. The study and the practice of law are much different, and at times mutually exclusive. It doesn't matter where you went to school. JDs or newly licensed attorneys with little experience usually have a rough go of it Europe, even with an LLM from a European institution. If a firm hires you in Europe, they'll hire you because of your American education AND training; there are more than enough EU attorneys to advise on EU commerical law.) I presently work with a European firm that has a JD professional support attorney (i.e., English language document translator), and he is miserable. He can't represent clients in Europe, and he can't really do the US work despite a New York bar and being a law review editor (i.e., that's why they hired my firm in the US). In short, he's stuck and looking to go into consulting by default. Just my two cents. Good luck.