Hi!

I'm looking for Norwegian lawyers (or jurists for that matter) who've earlier applied for Ivy League schools. Which background do you have? Grades, earlier work experience, etc. Personally, I have the impression that a few years of work experience among the top-tier firms in Norway would increase one's chances of getting into Ivy League dramatically.

Any experiences regarding this?

LL.M. Roadmap: An International Students Guide to U.S. Law School Programs (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2011) (624 pages) (www.LLMRoadMap.com) (my new book) has several sections relevant to locating people from an LL.M. applicants home country who can provide helpful information (and maybe even become a networking asset).

LL.M. Roadmap discusses different ways that applicants can locate, for example, Norwegian lawyers with U.S. law degrees (from any U.S. school), Norwegian students at U.S. schools, and even other Norwegian LL.M. applicants (who may not read LLM Guide blogs). Obviously, you can learn a great deal from such contacts of your own nationality, who can assist in the admission process, but also who can help as you proceed through your LL.M. program and after you graduate with your LL.M. degree.

Strategies include asking the LL.M. office at U.S. schools to put you in contact with currently enrolled Norwegians LL.M. students and with Norwegian LL.M. graduates of that school. LL.M. programs would ordinarily be happy to make such connections. You can also access www.Westlaw.com, www.Lexis.com, www.Martindale-Hubbell.com, and other online databases (some free, some by subscription) and search for, for example, Norwegian lawyers holding LL.M. degrees from U.S. law schools. You might be surprised at the number of lawyers in your city or country holding LL.M. degrees from U.S. schools that interest you, or who graduated from other schools you may not even have considered before!

Good luck.

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