i m a law graduate in India.
Interested in doing LLM from US .
wat r my chances of securing a job for myself.
n wat is the expected starting salary.
highly oblige if someone tells me.
Thanking You.

I guess getting a job as a US lawyer is pretty difficult for foreigners and foerign educated lawyers. The golden years are over in the US economy as anywhere else, and there are enough fully US educated lawyers who are prepared to work for 70 hours a week for a good career.

A German friend of mine got a job in an international law firm even without having an LLM, but this was five years ago and he was in the the top one percent and had clerked at the law firm the year before. I think the only way to get a job is to have a law firm backing you with the whole visa business etc.

By the way, starting salaries in US law firms can be six figures in US-Dollars...

http://www.ilrg.com/schools/salary/

that salary info is old. more current info (for top firms) can be found at

http://www.infirmation.com/shared/insider/payscale.tcl

seach by state, and firm. Also go to www.nalpdirectory.com and search for firms. Each firm profile will list their policy on LLM job candidates (whether they hire them or not).

I would also call firms you are interested in and ask them this question directly.

I have a question : in your second year after finishing the LLM you may work for eg at a law office before returning to your country , but I do not know if they pay you or if it is only a pro bono internship What do you think?

Is the 'No Hiring LLMs' because of visa or is it because no JD?
An LLB from India, CA nd NY bar clear and LLM from Harvard. US citizenship. Does this combo ok in marketplace. Please advice. Thx.

Winners and Losers in the Globalization of Legal Services: Offshoring the Market for Foreign Lawyers

CAROLE SILVER
Northwestern University - School of Law

Abstract:
This article takes an empirical approach to the issue of how the U.S. legal services market is responding to globalization. It begins by considering the ways in which the domestic legal services market has internationalized by focusing on changes in legal education and examines the disconnection between U.S. legal education and practice opportunities in the U.S. The article proceeds to consider the ways in which U.S. law firms have become global organizations by offshoring their international identities, through the staffing of their non-U.S. offices with non-U.S. lawyers. Based on a database of more than 5,000 lawyers working in the offshore offices of 60 U.S.-based law firms, this article reveals this globalization strategy. Internationalization has been accomplished at local levels by most U.S. law firms. One consequence of this method of internationalization through offshoring is that the need for dual trained lawyers is minimal. While U.S. law schools attract increasing numbers of foreign lawyer students, U.S. law firms remain disinterested in hiring and training them. U.S. law firms have succeeded in going global by going local. As a result, the traditional power dynamics of most U.S. law firms, favoring domestic lawyers to the exclusion of those with foreign expertise and experience, has been preserved.

the article:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=691523

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