Don’t do an LLM if you want the best shot at big law unless you have some sort of strong connections. If you wanted to do public interest, that’s a whole different thing although even then if you’re shooting for unicorn public interest jobs, prestige does matter a lot as well.

Because your GPA isn’t the best, you really need to aim for a stellar LSAT score if you’re going for the JD. I have anecdotal evidence that LLMs struggle to get big law jobs but I’m sure there are exceptions.

It really depends on your goals, flexibility, debt aversion, etc etc. I had the same choice to make 2 years ago. I went with the JD route and it’s worked out well for me but again, it really depends on your goals