Have you stopped to think how even a top uni LLM (harvard i.e.) will help you get anywhere?
Why do you want it? Is it the way to get there? Are you being realistic?

Existential - your choice of username is interesting.

I understand where you are coming from. If anyone wants to do an LLM to get a good job, they are wasting their time. I agree. One year's work experience would work better.

In my beleif, LLM should be looked at as a research degree. In the sense that when one embarks upon a masters program, one should have clear idea of which area of law one wants to study in more detail. Reasons for this can be varied. People looking to enter the academia need it as an essential degree. For others, looking to practice, it gives them a definite solid theoretical base in a particular area of practice. Secondly, no education is harmful. Also, sometimes after having practiced in a particular field for sometime, one may want to take off a year and spend some time in serious study of the subject and debates surrounding it. As a lawyer, you seldom get the time to delve deeper than what the particular case at hand needs.

I guess one of the most important reasons for this question being asked, as you have, is the mind boggling costs involved for overseas student. Therefore, as long as one can justify such cost without expectations of returns from an extraordinary job due to the LLM, it is a great endeavor.

However, I do not know why fresh graduates do this course. I would like to hear from them. I beleive at least two years experience should be made mandatory for LLM.