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Experience abroad

  • 20-01-2015 1:25am
    #1
    WhiteWalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭


    Is experience in the legal world abroad broadly the same as legal work here? I'm pbviously talking about common law countries


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  • #2
    MarkAnthony
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    Doesn't have to be a common law country there is mutual recognition of qualifications throughout the EU (with certain caveats). US/Canadian employers would laugh at most of our law degrees (not people in practice but LLB, BCL etc.). Working in Ghana or Kenya is going to be a very different experience to the Four Courts.

    I suppose you also have to define 'legal work'. Research is research. Actual practice can vary a huge amount.


  • #3
    WhiteWalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭WhiteWalls


    why would employers laugh at an LLB?


  • #4
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    WhiteWalls wrote: »
    why would employers laugh at an LLB?

    Because it's a liberal arts degree. US and Canadian law degrees are post graduate. Not to mention if it was earned in Ireland it's going to be in Irish law. Note that as indicated people in practice here BL or solicitors would have less of an issue. That said if you pass the bar, you pass the bar. I'd expect to be working in something like the Public Defenders office rather than Crane Poole and Schmit though.

    Working the other way; doing a few years as a paralegal in the US for example would, however, look very well on a CV when applying in Ireland.


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