http://www.llm-guide.com/board/6849 en Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Foreign trained lawyers in the US - LLM GUIDE Discussion Board Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:19:00 +0200 http://www.llm-guide.com/board/6849/last#6849 Hello there, just a quick reply to your request. I am a foreign trained lawyer who just completed an LLM, along with friends from India, Australia and europe. First, only graduates from common law countries are eligible to sit for the NY bar w/o doing an LLM (e.g. UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ). Based on the experience of my friends from India, India does not qualify as a common law country ; all of them had to sit for the LL.M to "cure" the common law deficiency as required by the BOLE. Second, make sure, wherever you will do your LL.M. to take 2 courses in basic american law as this is a part of the requirement for curing your deficit (i.e. 20 credits at least in an accredited US law school + 2 courses). Note that online LLMs are not permitted!! Thirdly, you send in your application before you actually graduate from the program, and upon graduating the registrar sends BOLE a copy of your transcript with a certficate of enrollment. ONLY THEN will you receive your authorization to sit. So no worries there, it is a well greased mechanic Finally, if you are doing the LL.M with the intention of sitting for the bar, do yourself a big favor and have your prior education assessed by the Board of Law examiners PRIOR to enrolling into an LLM. They will send you a letter confirming or not the possibility of curing one of the two potential deficiencies (length of legal education, or content i.e. common law). This is how it went for many of us and we are all sitting for the bar next week. so gotta go studying Best of luck in your endeavours