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Bilingual Advantage? |
| Message Name: |
advantages |
| Date Posted: |
04/22/2002 |
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Say that you were already hired at a BIGLAW firm according to your law school GPA. How much would a perfect fluency of a second language give you an advantage once you are hired in the law firms? I understand everything is relative, but I would like to know how useful it would be for a Korean-American who wants enter BIGLAW to be perfectly fluent in Korean. (I post this message, because I am considering perhaps taking a year off and mastering my second language before going to law school depending on how useful that would be.) |
| Message: |
I trust Dancehallcrasher on this point, but my answer might have been a bit more expansive. Unless you go to work for a firm where you can use your Korean fluency, I would concur with the "none" answer. But perfect fluency in Korean probably would give you "some" advantage when you apply for positions at a firm with a major Korean clientele. So my answer would be "some", but that's because I would fit the "some" in the qualifier that Dancehallcrasher uses.
On aesthetic grounds, I think language proficiency is a good thing no matter what, but that's another topic.
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