<p>Hello friends
Is work experience a vital tool for admission in US top law schools? What happens if an applicant doesn't have legal experience?
Can you please help me? I don't have legal experience, but I worked as a researcher on anti-corruption issues and also with the parliamentary commissions (of course it wasn't a legal experience) for more than one year.
Thanks for your advice in advance!</p>
<p>"LLM" is not the degree you can seek unless you have already graduated from a law school, i.e. LLM is a master's program for those who have already gone through law school. </p>
<p>Work experience is not necessarily vital for admission to law school but a number of law schools specifically favor admitting those with some work experience after college and others weigh it as a favorable factor.</p>
<p>If what you are asking about is an LLM program and you are a international who does not have a US law degree but have your country's legal training, then work experience can be a factor.</p>
<p>Thanks drusba for the information you provided. I graduated from Kabul law school, but they don't offer master programs. I have 610 on TOEFL and good scores during my undergraduate studies. I submitted four recommendation letters too. I hope they don't take the legal experience a vital requirment in my case, since academic style in my country ( afghanistan) isn't similar to that of other world.</p>