Path to practicing Law

[helfdane]

You might also want to post on the unofficial sister board degreeinfo.com. There are a few experts in law who spend more time there, including a retired judge with a non-tax background who became interested in tax and did Enrolled Agent and LLM Tax.

Good luck in this transition!

Thank you for the reference! I haven't been able to get my e-mail authenticated to cross-post but I did find a forum post answered my question https://www.degreeinfo.com/index.php?thr...ine.62774/

The bottom line was that if you want to practice law in the U.S., get a J.D. with the biggest downside being the cost. If I wanted to establish international tax shelters, it might make sense to get a degree in the country I would practice in... Now I gotta go look up Luxembourg, Dubai, Netherlands, Bahamas... I've got some new stuff to research.

If I stay US then I can pick an online program or an in-person program and its a fairly short list of national ABA distance learned J.D. degrees. I will focus on putting together the best application I can and then apply to anywhere I want to go and take it from there. 

Thanks for the help