Q: How to work in New York law firms (In New York )with LLB degree from LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS ?

A: Have you contacted the New York State Office of Court Administration? OCA? That office registers all lawyers. I was sworn in as an out of state applicant and I believe the 3rd Department controls all nonresidents at the time of application.

I have no knowledge about your particular area of concentration. However I do believe New York has the brightest lawyers in the country since this is the 3rd and hopefully final state I will ever practice in.

Your goal to become highly specialized and extremely focused on a niche and be the best you can in it is comendable and smart.

If I were to do it over again I would attend a law school in New York City such as NYU or Columbia because the schools are great and the contacts you make will be priceless. Although Yale is not far and an awesome school and although NYC is the only place to practice law IMHO I really like Cornell in spite of what some people say.

I will say that some of the smartest lawyers I have met (people who truly understand people) graduated from many of NYC's lesser recognized law schools. All the schools give you the basics. It's what you dream about and constantly think about while sleeping eating or running that will make you a lawyer that some person 100 years from now might recognize "that was a well reasoned and legally sound argument." Good luck.

A: You need to contact the NY bar association to determine if you qualify to take the NY Bar Examination. Unlike the UK, each state in the USA licenses its attorneys. I would suggest you contact a bar review course in the USA as US civil procedure is far different than UK or EU law. You would also need to understand the basics of the US's UCC or Uniform Commercial Code, Criminal Procedure, and Business law, all of which are similar but have distinct differences from the Law of the UK. US Constitutional law is also different as the US has its Bill of Rights and the UK does not.

I would also call an office of a US law firm in London and ask to meet a US partner located in the UK and explain why you are calling. Chances are someone would give you 30 minutes to discuss your options. I lived in the UK for 5 years and dealt with legal issues as acting MD for a property company there and could have been admitted to the UK bar as a solicitor, but never bothered to do so.