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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Hence the advise for him/her to go Harvard, Oxbridge for the LLM to help compete against the Oxbridge u/g which firms like Quinn Emanuel hire from.
You can also do a quick search of Singaporeans who did LLM in Oxbridge and see their career paths now.
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LLMs are only useful for getting a work visa in the country you did an LLM in. The knowledge is totally useless in practice. I’m working opposite a NY firm associate now from Slovenia - she did an LLM so she could get a work visa in USA and switch to a law firm there. She’s the first to admit the knowledge has 0 relevance to her work (capital markets).
LLMs have a time and a place but it’s not generally wise to throw a huge sum of money + opportunity cost of not working a year and building more PQE unless you really want to switch countries.
Taking a foreign LLM and then coming back to Singapore with it is just… an absolute waste of money.
Taking an LLM and using the time to apply for UL barrister’s chambers, or for US litigation firms is a much better value proposition .