Anyone severely underperform getting their JD and wind up pursuing an LLM to become more competitive in the job market? Tell us your story.

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Yes and no. I wanted to do cyberlaw, which fell under the umbrella of IP at my school. I didn’t have the undergrad for patent law and didn’t want to do that anyway. So I proactively got the LLM to hopefully make myself more attractive to firms since I wouldn’t have the patent bar to cover me. It did not work, which is ok because I opened my own firm and love it. And I don’t practice cyberlaw now, which is also ok, because I do love my area of practice. I guess I’m saying none of it worked out, and I’m happy anyways. Lol

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What area do you practice now?

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Depends on what you mean by “severely underperform”?

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