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First, this article only addresses the USA. If you don't want to practice in the US, there are lots of options. See Korshak, Landing a Legal Job Overseas. Law s

First, this article only addresses the USA. If you don't want to practice in the US, there are lots of options. See Korshak, Landing a Legal Job Overseas. Law school is an American anomaly. In Canada/UK/Ireland, you can major in law as an undergraduate. You can't do so in the US. With a LLB degree, you can do legal work in lots of countries--and even qualify to take the bar in the U.S. The author leaves out little details like the "diploma privilege" in Mississippi and other Southern states--but never Florida--if you graduated from a state law school there was no need to take the bar exam. And during WWII time in law school was reduced or relaxed.

jlos 9y ago
Not true in Canada. Law degree's first require an Undergraduate degree prior to entrance into the law faculty: https://www.law.utoronto.ca/admissions/youth-outreach/so-you-want-become-lawyer https://www.law.utoronto.ca/admissions/youth-outreach/so-you...
- pseudolus 9y ago
  That's not entirely correct. In Quebec, medicine and law are first degrees. The bulk of law and medicine graduates from French language universities do not have an undergraduate degree but rather enter with what is roughly equivalent to the first year of an undergraduate degree. Also, many English language universities accept applications from students who have completed the second or third year of their undergraduate degree.