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.

» 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.

• Abogoado
• DEA
• DEUG
• Licence en droit
• Maitrise en droit
• 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:

• 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
• 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.

» 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/

Law School-Specific Help
Please contact the law school in which you are interested to obtain program information or application requirements for that school.