<p>Some people get overhyped with work experience. Just focus on your GPA and LSAT. If you can do a 3.9+ and 170+, you will get into a T14…and have a shot at the T5. </p>
<p>Now with regards to living abroad. This is not a stupid idea at all. If you go to law school, when you’re searching for employment, focus on firms that do heavy business in East Asia. You could always do an LLM like NYU@NUS (you get an LLM from NYU and NUS in a year) or a strait East Asian LLM if you wanted to target directly to East Asian firms. Another idea would be to go through profiles of American lawyers working throughout East Asia to get an idea of how they ended up there. I would really focus on Hong Kong and Singapore though–and let Taiwan, Japan, and SK slide out of the picture.</p>