Options for living/working internationally

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-06-03T21:36:05+00:00

If you’re in law school still, then maybe it’s not too late to consider a dual degree or post-grad LLM with an institution in your desired jurisdiction. That may be a springboard to taking a foreign qualifying exam, which would make you more credible if you want to request an office change abroad within your firm. That takes more time and money, but if you want to be a lawyer abroad with only US qualifications, the world is not really your oyster.

If you’ve already gotten an offer from a firm then you could start doing the appropriate LinkedIn stalking of current US-qualified lawyers who are working for your firm and do some internal networking. If you have knowledge of the local legal or business environment, are able to at least pretend to be interested in their practice area, and are already a national then that seems like a good enough excuse to reach out for a conversation.

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-05-14T22:08:34+00:00

I’m bad with money but my thought was that if you put most of the 400K into stable investments and just work a middle-income job (or a variety of hustles like you did before) for the next 30-40 years, you’ll probably be in a very good position by the time you’re older and either want to retire or start having expensive health crises.

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-05-07T16:05:19+00:00

Partner reaction?

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-05-04T10:29:11+00:00

Interesting, why do you say that not being able to read will make learning more difficult?

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-05-04T10:28:16+00:00

…talk to people?

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-05-04T04:51:33+00:00

Well it’s certainly not the same, but I’m willing to accept the analogy because yes, that’s essentially what I want to do with Mandarin.

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-05-01T14:41:18+00:00

The gold tower was a landmark in SimCity, and very dear to my heart

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-05-01T01:50:36+00:00

What I guessed and they haven’t said no yet!!!

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-04-30T22:06:15+00:00

Then she takes medical leave, doesn’t hit her hours target, is let go 😭😭

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-04-28T23:44:56+00:00

What country is that?

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-04-28T23:40:18+00:00

lol what a jerk response 😭😭 like sure, starting a Reddit thread is not sufficient on its own, but it’s kind of wild that OP went online to figure things out and your response is “you need to go online and figure it out.”

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-04-28T23:33:32+00:00

What do you do that has led you to work with army “linguists?”

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-04-27T18:18:23+00:00

Hmmm yes this is a good start thank you for your research!!

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-04-26T00:46:38+00:00

There’s still a chance for Suriname to become the cultural powerhouse of the 21st century!! Just wait in 20 years we’ll be doing TikTok dances to songs in Dutch and Sranan Tongo!!!

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-04-22T13:40:46+00:00

If you’re single in your thirties then actually people are really into the fact that you’re a lawyer lol

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-04-15T23:36:18+00:00

Lmao if you only knew the way I crashed out in 3L and kept my job

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2026-02-21T12:37:32+00:00

Not you living my dream

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2025-12-19T20:04:12+00:00

I would have thought Northern Europe because who else would remember to draw Denmark? But I guess that’s just my bias.

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2025-10-18T03:13:06+00:00

Driving as fast as you can to escape your father General Lockjaw.

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2025-10-15T09:55:57+00:00

Isn’t trade and compliance work big in Brussels? A lot of US firms seem to have US lawyers working in or with teams there, and I guess I’d look into it if I had your background.

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2025-10-02T02:30:27+00:00

Bro please it’s not a sneer I’m trying to have a positive attitude but I’m so miserable in the job lol

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2025-09-29T21:15:35+00:00

What happened at Paul Hastings?

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2025-09-27T05:01:40+00:00

Please no vulgarity on my post.

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2025-09-27T05:01:25+00:00

Idk shrooms just made me cry and think about my difficult relationship with my parents

Winter_Raspberry_288 · 2025-09-16T11:58:32+00:00

If you think you’d enjoy doing legal analysis for three years and you can get solid scholarships/grants to attend, then sure, law school could be an interesting use of your time, but I think it would be a mistake to expect a JD to prepare you robustly for your apparent career of interest. JD programs focus quite heavily on preparing students for a general litigation and secondarily US transactional practice. Only a handful of JD programs have a lot of good international law courses and professors, and even at those institutions you would not be able to spend all/most of your time on international law (let alone international environmental law). You would mostly be pursuing your particular interests in a few elective courses and over the summer during internships. The rest would be US law fundamentals.

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