http://www.llm-guide.com/board/7243 en Re: Re: JDs doing LLMs in Europe - LLM GUIDE Discussion Board Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:59:00 +0200 http://www.llm-guide.com/board/7243/last#7243 Please take this reply as a candid and helpful answer. Newly minted US-educated attorneys (i.e., those in New York or DC doing document review or some other first year associate work) are better advised to remain in the US and get substantive legal experience before pursuing an LLM in Europe. If you head off to Europe without the ability to truly practice like a US lawyer, you will at best end up revising contracts drafted by non-native English speakers. It's not a question of ability, just experience. The young American attorney in my firm with European LLM is nowhere near as developed as the lateral we just hired from the US. (She spent fours in Boston doing nothing but domestic ADR). She's actually now heading off with the partner to do the international arbitration that the attorney prepared for the last year. Both are 1999 grads. The other simply never had the opportunity to grow as a lawyer. Finally, you may have a very difficult time returning to the US without sufficiently developed US skills. I would advise to be sure that this is what you want to do. It's a difficult road to take and could lead to even more dissatisfaction.