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 Welcome
to the Law School Admission Council’s (LSAC) credential evaluation and
reporting service for LLM and other graduate law degrees. This
credential-assembly service is solely for graduates of international
universities or law schools who wish to obtain a master of laws (LLM) degree
(or other comparable law degrees) from a participating law school in the United
States or Canada. For a fee of
$185
(US), LSAC, in cooperation with the American Association of Collegiate
Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), will collect, authenticate, and
process all transcripts, TOEFL® scores, and other documents required by each
law school to which you wish to apply. This is a very efficient and convenient
way to apply to many U.S. graduate law programs at once, since you will only
have to supply your official transcripts (and mark sheets when
applicable) and other educational records one time, to LSAC, no matter how
many schools you intend to apply to. The fee includes reports to five law
schools. You may order additional law school reports for
$15
(US) each. The report will contain biographic, academic, and if applicable,
TOEFL score information. Copies of your transcripts (and translations, if
necessary) will be sent with the report. The law school application process is
separate from this credential-processing service; you will have to apply to
each law school separately in addition to having your credentials
assembled and evaluated by LSAC. After you complete the application
process and enroll at a participating school, LSAC will forward your original
transcripts and other relevant documents directly to your school for your
records.
Once you register, you will be able to monitor the progress of your credential
packet by logging into your secure LSAC Internet account. Your account will be
active for five years, so your credentials will be ready whenever you choose to
apply for an LLM program. You have the option of purchasing additional law
school reports beyond the five that are included in your subscription fee.
The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) is a nonprofit corporation whose
members are 202 law schools in the United States and Canada. It was founded in
1947 to coordinate, facilitate, and enhance the law school admission process.
The organization also provides programs and services related to legal
education. All law schools approved by the American Bar Association (ABA) are
LSAC members. Canadian law schools recognized by a provincial or territorial
law society or government agency are also included in the voting membership of
the Council. LSAC does not engage in assessing an applicant's chances for
admission to any law school; all admission decisions are made by individual law
schools.
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CLICK
HERE for a list of participating U.S. Law
Schools.
Eligibility
and Requirements
To be eligible to apply to an LLM program for international students in the
United States and Canada, you must have completed, or be in the process of
completing, a degree that entitles you to practice law in a country outside of
the U.S. or Canada, such as a J.D., LL.B., or an equivalent degree.
In order to determine if
you are eligible to apply for an LLM program in the United States or Canada,
use the chart
to locate the country in which you obtained (or are in the process of
obtaining) your law degree. Next to the country name, the minimum degree
required is specified. These eligibility requirements apply to most law schools
listed on this website as participants in LSAC’s LLM Credential Assembly
Service. If you do not find the country where you obtained your education
listed here, or if you do not possess these minimum requirements, you should
contact the law school(s) to which you are interested in applying before
subscribing to the LSAC service. Applicants who have received (or will
receive) their law degree from Puerto Rico are NOT eligible for the LLM
Credential Assembly Service.
Note that these are minimum requirements, and
candidates must present all post-secondary educational work completed,
including work completed prior to and after the degrees listed for each
country.
You will be required to
submit to LSAC all of your attested documents from the issuing institution or
government agency along with English translations if the original documents are
not in English. ALL transcripts, mark sheets, degree certificates, etc.,
MUST be sent directly to LSAC from the issuing institution. LSAC will not
accept transcripts issued to you or sent by you even if they are in a sealed
envelope. Documents received from any source other than the issuing institution
will NOT be processed and will be returned to you. Copies of all
foreign educational records must be submitted in the original language. Records
not in English must be accompanied by a literal English
translation. Translations do not have to be certified, but must be literal
(word for word). You may do the translation yourself and it may be sent
separatley from your transcripts if necessary. If you do use the services of a
translator, he/she must sign the translated copy and include contact
information. Once LSAC has received all of your transcripts up to and including
the first degree in law, the credential analysis should take approximately two
to three weeks, depending on the time of year and provided no additional
documentation is needed. You may also be required to submit TOEFL® scores.
From candidates who have earned one or more of the
following degrees/diplomas, we will require copies of those degrees/diplomas,
together with the English translations, where applicable. In addition, we
reserve the right to request copies of other degrees not listed, as necessary.
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Abogoado
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DEA
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DEUG
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Licence en droit
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Maitrise en droit
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Licenciado en derecho
Applicants educated in the People's Republic of China
need to submit the following documents in order for an LSAC evaluation to be
completed:
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Official degree certificates (zhuanke, bachelor's,
master's, etc.) and graduation diplomas in Chinese for
all programs undertaken along with a complete and literal English translation
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Official college or university academic record
(transcript) in Chinese showing all courses and grades
for all years of study along with a complete and literal English translation
Note: The academic record must be issued by the
institution's central administrative office responsible for preparing and
verifying official student records. Documents issued by an individual
academic department or by a notary public are not considered
official.
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CLICK
HERE to view the Minimum Degree
Requirements by Country chart.
Payment of Fees
The fee for LSAC’s LLM credential-processing service is
$185
, payable by a valid credit card in US dollars. Your credit card information
will be collected at the end of the registration process. If you do not have a
valid credit card, you may pay the fee with an international money order
payable in US dollars to Law School Admission Council, or, if you have a US
bank account, you may use a check or money order payable in US dollars to Law
School Admission Council. Your registration will not be processed until your
fee payment is received by LSAC. This fee is not refundable once transcript
summarization has begun.
The LLM service does not collect the application fees for individual law
schools participating in the LLM Credential-Assembly Service. You will be
required to apply to each law school’s program separately.
Stop
Payments/Returned Checks/Credit Card Denial
If your credit card authorization is denied:
• a hold will be placed on
your file
• neither credential analysis nor law school reporting will be possible until
you pay the outstanding balance
A credit card
denial will not cancel your registration.
If you stop
payment on any check, or if any check is returned:
• a hold will be
placed on your file
• a $30 charge will be applied to your account
• neither credential analysis nor law school reporting will be possible until
you pay the outstanding balance, plus the $30 charge
Stopping payment
will not cancel your registration.
Refund
Policy
The registration fee is only refundable if LSAC receives your signed, written
request prior to the completion of any transcript summarization on your file.
The fee is not refundable once transcript summarization has begun. Your request
must be in writing and received before your file expires. Please mail or fax a
written request, including your signature and LSAC Account Number, to the
attention of LSAC LLM Credential Assembly Service. If writing from outside of
the U.S., faxing is recommended. The fax number is (215) 504-1456. Fees paid
for additional law school reports are nonrefundable.
Reevaluation
of Credentials
If you request a reevaluation of credentials for any reason, there will
be an additional nonrefundable fee of $40.
TOEFL®
Score
You are responsible for determining if the law schools to which you are
applying require a TOEFL score as part of your admission credentials. If any of
the law schools to which you are applying do require this score, you must
provide your TOEFL registration/appointment confirmation number in the
appropriate space on the LLM Registration Form. You must also have Educational
Testing Service send your TOEFL score directly to LSAC using the institution
code number 8395 and department code 00. LSAC will include your TOEFL score as
part of your law school report, and you will not be required to send the score
separately to any law school participating in this credential-processing
service. LSAC will report up to four TOEFL scores as part of the service.
Service
Fee Reduction Requests
Fees for this service may be reduced at the discretion of individual
participating law schools. To request a fee reduction, contact the LLM
admission director at the law school to which you wish to apply. All financial
needs analysis information must be submitted directly to the law school. Do not
register with LSAC for the credential assembly service until the school informs
you of its fee reduction decision. Once you have paid the full fee for this
service, your fee will not be reduced.
Transcript Request Form
The Transcript Request Form must be printed out at the completion
of your online registration and must accompany your postsecondary
transcript(s). Send the form to every postsecondary institution you have listed
in your credential services registration and ask each institution to complete
the form and to send an official transcript to LSAC at the address
noted on the form. ALL transcripts, mark sheets, degree certificates, etc.,
MUST be sent directly to LSAC from the issuing institution. LSAC will not
accept transcripts issued to you or sent by you even if they are in a sealed
envelope. Documents received from any source other than the issuing institution
will NOT be processed and will be returned to you. (Note: If
the transcript issued by your school does not list the courses taken, semester
hours, and grades, you will also need to request the mark sheets.)
For programs of study still in progress, for which no grades are yet available,
a letter is required from the school, confirming your current enrollment,
expected completion date, and the fact that no grades are available.
Transcripts will not be returned to candidates under any circumstances. LSAC
will not accept WES or any other outside evaluations. Once LSAC has received
all of your transcripts, the credential analysis should take approximately two
to three weeks, depending on the time of year and provided no additional
documentation is needed.
Ordering
Additional Law School Reports
If you need more than the five law school reports that are included as
part of your fee for this service, you may order them for
$15
each. They can be ordered from this website at the same time you register for
this service or later. Be certain that you will need extra reports before you
order them; fees for additional reports are nonrefundable.
Helpful
Website
Educational Testing Service-TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign
Language) http://www.toefl.org/
For Additional Information
LSAC LLM Credential Service
662 Penn St. Box 8511
Newtown, PA 18940-8511
USA
E-mail: LLMinfo@LSAC.org
Fax: 215.504.1456
Phone: 215-968-1315
Technical support e-mail: support@LSAC.org
Law
School-Specific Help
Please contact the law school in which you are interested to obtain
program information or application requirements for that school.
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Registration
If you are certain that you are eligible to apply for an LLM program at a
participating U.S. law school, click the "Create Your Account" button below to
begin the registration process.
Please have the following
information on hand in order to complete your registration:
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Name of secondary school
attended and dates of enrollment
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Name of institution where
first degree in law was earned, dates of enrollment, degree awarded, and date
awarded
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Name(s) of all other
post-secondary institutions attended, dates of enrollment, degree(s) awarded,
and date(s) awarded
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TOEFL
registration/appointment number and date of test if applicable
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Credit card information:
type, account number, expiration date, and security code
Click for
more information about a specific field.
Please
make sure you have read all of the above
information before creating your account.
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