Hi,

There are several LLM events in Europe this month where there will be a chance to meet representatives of US law schools and former LLM students. Has anyone attended one of these events before and did you find it useful? Did they offer any new information that wasn't already availble online? Did you get to introduce yourself to US law school representatives and have a conversation with them?
And most importantly: has anyone felt that attending an event has helped them gain admissions because they had personally introduced themself to the law school representative?

I would like to attend one or two of the workshops but the closest event is still a couple hours drive from my hometown and I don't really want to waste my time if there's no real added value to attending such an event. Any info would be welcome.

Thanks in advance!

As one of the law school representatives who will be making presentations later this month in Europe, I wanted to reply to your message, Anna.

Events like this have been used for many years in the US for prospective applicants to JD programs. They are designed to give prospective candidates an opportunity to speak directly with school representatives to get a better idea of the admissions process at respective schools and a feeling for what the overall experience will be like. Schools sometimes will have recent graduates present so candidates can get the "student perspective" on what their experience was like.

Although it can happen that school representatives will remember the "impressions" made by candidates they speak to at these events, that will depend a lot on the number of people they meet. In another words, the more crowded the event is the less likely candidates will leave such individual impressions.

Bottom line: we hope these sessions are useful to the people who attend them but a well informed applicant - one who has carefully reviewed the material on a school's web page - is likely not to learn much new information. What does often happen, however, is that a candidate may encounter a school he/she had not considered before and that experience prompts the candidate to look carefully at what that school has to offer.