Hi Everyone, I have many questions in mind i need help with before starting to look for a law school and I will really appreciate your help. I have a Bachelors Degree in Finance from a State University and I graduated Dec 2007. Currently I am working as a Business Analyst with a company that makes Tax and Accounting Software. Big 4 are my clients they use our software and as a software developer for this company I work with 6 states to develop the tax forms and update the tax laws in the software and update the clients accordingly. I have been working with the Tax Software industry for about 4 years. That's how I got interested in going towards a Law Degree. Honestly, I know very little about the Law Degree and how to go about it. I started researching recently and started studying for LSAT as well, which I am planning on taking in December 2009. Please advice if I should go for J.D or Maters in Tax Laws ( which I believe is LLM)? I am really interested in going to a Law School, this is my dream but I am not sure what to look for? and how to start? I will really appreciate any piece of advice.

Thanks in advance.

I assume, since you're thinking about writing the LSAT (and, in fact, studying for it) that you're either American or Canadian.

LL.M.'s are Master of Laws degrees, and because North Americans almost automatically make legal training a second degree (even though traditionally it was classed as undergraduate-level study, and still is in most of the world), the overwhelming majority of North Americans who pursue LL.M.'s have completed a first undergraduate degree and then law school before starting an LL.M. program.

If tax LL.M. programs are different in routinely admitting students without J.D.'s or undergraduate law degrees from other countries, I would be surprised, though it is certainly possible.

Thank you for answering that P_Martini

he is saying that you are most likely not eligible for a tax llm if you dont have a first law degree. although i dont know if this is always the case in the US, it would certainly be very hard to do a good LLM w/out prior legal training.

if you want to practice law you will not be able to do this w just an LLM

Thank you for more explaination bernese. really appreciate it.

Yeah, I think I just caught mubabar on the wrong side of my edit. Sorry about that.

I'm an american citizen with a law degree in the dominican republic (santo domingo). Should i be able to find a job in law field in NY? Would chances improve after doing a LLM?