At present, the employment direction of law graduates is mainly to be lawyers, and their destinations are roughly divided into the following categories: civil servants and institutions; Financial institutions; Four major accounting firms; Corporate legal affairs; Illegal work in various enterprises. Compared with Master of Laws, Master of Laws has the following advantages:
(1) From the composite background of professional knowledge, LLM has a wider range of knowledge, which meets the requirements of broad knowledge and strong comprehensive analysis ability in the civil service examination, and the proportion of civil servants admitted is much higher than LLM.
(2) The legal talents needed by law firms are mainly applied, rather than theoretical research, so the master of law in the application-oriented training direction is also very popular with law firms.
(3) In the competition of employment opportunities in colleges and universities, the employment trend of colleges and universities now is highly educated. Generally, it is difficult to find a good career as a university teacher without a doctorate in law. In this way, the research-oriented group like the Master of Laws is in an awkward position. The Doctor of Laws squeezes, the Master of Laws competes, and the Bachelor of Laws serves!
So from this perspective, LLM did not get more opportunities and lost the base camp of college employment.
(4) In corporate legal affairs, like lawyers, the choice of legal talents is to see whether it can bring them practical economic benefits, rather than letting these law graduates do legal papers. They prefer practical LLM students.