JD advantage jobs

[Hope97]

Is there anyone on here that got a JD advantage job after graduation (without articling)? 

[SNAILS]

You might want to clarify what you mean if you want good answers. 🤓

[whereverjustice]

A JD advantage job is one where having a law degree/license is a significant asset in getting/keeping/succeeding in the job, but not a requirement. 

[frenchie]

Consulting! I’ve had a few friends that got into consulting gigs right after law school with MBB and big 4 firms. 

[Turtles]

My current role (pre-law school job as a mature student) may be construed as a JD advantage job (more than half of my peers/predecessors in the past 10 years have had JDs or LLBs as legal training obviously helps with the legal research/writing we do). The only one who went on to article (secondment with our Internal Legal team) then left to join a law firm once licensed. 

You haven't posed any substantive question so I'm not sure what information you're looking for.

[Darth Vader]

54 minutes ago, frenchie said:

Consulting! I’ve had a few friends that got into consulting gigs right after law school with MBB and big 4 firms. 

Were they in U of T JD/MBA? Because the only person I know that managed to land MBB consulting from Osgoode was a JD/MBA who was also a medalist. An MBB consulting firm is very difficult to land with a Canadian law degree. I know lawyers working at seven sister law firms that interviewed with the MBB but were unsuccessful at getting in. I know a Harvard law grad that got in recently though.

[Rashabon]

I know a number of U of T JD grads and JD/MBA grads that have gone into consulting with one of the Big Three.

[frenchie]

3 hours ago, Darth Vader said:

Were they in U of T JD/MBA? Because the only person I know that managed to land MBB consulting from Osgoode was a JD/MBA who was also a medalist. An MBB consulting firm is very difficult to land with a Canadian law degree. I know lawyers working at seven sister law firms that interviewed with the MBB but were unsuccessful at getting in. I know a Harvard law grad that got in recently though.

I know two uOttawa law grads at McKinsey Montréal!

[Hope97]

On 1/15/2022 at 8:42 PM, Turtles said:

My current role (pre-law school job as a mature student) may be construed as a JD advantage job (more than half of my peers/predecessors in the past 10 years have had JDs or LLBs as legal training obviously helps with the legal research/writing we do). The only one who went on to article (secondment with our Internal Legal team) then left to join a law firm once licensed. 

You haven't posed any substantive question so I'm not sure what information you're looking for.

I was just wondering if people have done this and if so which jobs they got!