My experience. It was pricey. And the career return was low. As an ROI, it was not worth it . It was a loss. I am not the only one who feels this way. I know at least one who left the program early finding it not worth it.

Dude, you really are quite bitter about your experience. Instead of spending time re-posting the same post over and over again, perhaps you should spend time sending out applications, networking, calling up people.

I graduated from Michigan. From my experience, career services equally sucked at my school (as they do at most schools). I had to buckle down and get serious about finding a job on my own and, eventually, I did. Although, it took some time and hard work.

My experience. It was pricey. And the career return was low. As an ROI, it was not worth it . It was a loss. I am not the only one who feels this way. I know at least one who left the program early finding it not worth it.

My experience. It was pricey. And the career return was low. As an ROI, it was not worth it . It was a loss. I am not the only one who feels this way. I know at least one who left the program early finding it not worth it.

Very interesting post.

Confirms my assumption that US LL.M.s are way overpriced when compared to the top programs in Europe. I probably was right in chosing Cambridge over Columbia and Chicago.

Major downer for AU by the way. This post might stick for years.

My experience. It was pricey. And the career return was low. As an ROI, it was not worth it . It was a loss. I am not the only one who feels this way. I know at least one who left the program early finding it not worth it.

Very interesting post.

Confirms my assumption that US LL.M.s are way overpriced when compared to the top programs in Europe. I probably was right in chosing Cambridge over Columbia and Chicago.

Major downer for AU by the way. This post might stick for years.

Unless you are interested in tax law, LL.M. degrees, in general, are not worth the price tag, as I noted in some other posts. Incidentally, I was looking at doing an S.J.D. at Cambridge, and for non-EU types, the price tag is (or at least was in 05) just as steep as programs in the US, so I tossed that idea out.

Like I was telling Craig Brown, I lived in DC for six years and I knew plenty of LL.M. grads from AU at the World Bank, OAS, IMF, major law firms (that had branches in Europe of course), NGOs, non-profits, think tanks, but they were super well connected, did internships while in the program, and networked like crazy.

In this economy and this legal job market you just have to work your tail off to find a job. I don't care if you graduate from Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Georgetown; you will still have to work very hard at finding work (I did) and the battle will be that much more uphill if you aren't a U.S. citizen and did not graduate from a JD program. I am not sure what Craig Brown was expecting. Perhaps he/she did not do his/her research of the US job market, in particular in the legal field, and employment prospects for LL.M. grads.

I have to chuckle a bit when I talk to people who think that they will have job offers left and right just because they graduated from Harvard's LL.M. program. If you believe that, I have some nice property in Fiji to sell you for $.99.
I know Harvard and Columbia JDs who are doing contract work/temporary work just to pay the bills. LL.M.s are certainly bellow US JD grads on the totem poll so you connect the dots.

Regarding career services, as I posted in other forums, they are worthless at about every institution of higher learning in the US, from the elite to the bottom of the ladder. They are there to organize the annual job fairs, which generally cater to JD students, more specifically to the top %15 of the JD students, and to search through websites like monster.com and re-post job posting from these sites on to the career services job bank, job postings which are useless to newly minted grads as they generally require years of experience. I went to Michigan, an elite school, and I found career services just as useless as they are everywhere else.

You have to work hard, think outside the box, network, try to do internships while in school, etc. to get anything these days, unless you are a JD graduate with Summa Cum Laude behind the Juris Doctor from the likes of Harvard and Yale. And even then, it takes some work to get a job.

I don't think US job market...I tend to think the legal profession in general worldwide...way too many people wanting to do the same things and with the same qualifications..everyone has an LLM these days and everyone is as equally bright so it is more luck than anything else

Take London for example, a super competitive market and there are so many qualified lawyers in the UK that trained and studied here and haven't got a job and have to do temp work.

I don't think US job market...I tend to think the legal profession in general worldwide...way too many people wanting to do the same things and with the same qualifications..everyone has an LLM these days and everyone is as equally bright so it is more luck than anything else

Take London for example, a super competitive market and there are so many qualified lawyers in the UK that trained and studied here and haven't got a job and have to do temp work.