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Overseas Practice

  • 15-10-2008 1:20pm
    #1
    crosbie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭


    Hi all just looking for some info. I'm going to NY to do the Bar Exam in Feb. I had intended to come back here but now Im not so sure. Has anyone here any experience of working in the US especially NYC? I am interested in opinions relating to how easy it is to seek employment, pay and conditions and other such information. Thanks.


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  • #2
    dats_right
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭dats_right


    Don't know all that much about it, but have heard from various sources that a US LLM, in addition to Bar Exam, is almost a necessity in securing employment.

    You could try contacting the Irish American Bar Association of New York, some of their tips for Irish law graduates on Making it as a Lawyer in New York can be found on:

    http://www.iabany.org/careers.html


  • #3
    Gangu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 416 ✭✭Gangu


    There must be a forum for NYC lawyers, find it and ask them the question.


  • #4
    crosbie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭crosbie


    Gangu wrote: »
    There must be a forum for NYC lawyers, find it and ask them the question.
    Any particular site spring to mind?? Have been looking at the forum section of nylawyer.com but not much help.


  • #5
    metrovelvet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭metrovelvet


    Legally all you need to practise law in NYC is to pass the NY state bar. However given the current economic climate, the fact that every college student who graduates with a BA in Liberal Arts then goes onto law school, you are in fierce competition with some of the finest graduates in the nation: Columbia, NYU, Princeton,Yale.

    Furthmore, no HR department wants to deal with foreign working visas anymore. Its an expensive nightmare for them and with all the graduates coming out of NYC, the world is their oyster.


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