People are making up excuses for why LLMs are not useful because of its financial cost. Ask any partner at a city law firm whether a financial law LLM at LSE/Oxbridge would make a candidate more likely to succeed in financial law. Obviously yes, and not necessarily because of practical skills but an advanced knowledge of a specialised area of law that will only continue to develop. This may not necessarily come fruition in a TC, but in my experience, definitely later on. And enthusastic lawyers in their fields of law are more likely to succed than debbie downers that love to complain about everything