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Re: California School of Law
Posted by steve on 7/11/08

    Hi John,

    Thanks for the advice. However, I have no intention of practicing the
    law. Taft eJD requires a total of 75 units for graduation: 56
    required and 19 elective. Since they let me take taxation courses as
    elective, I can accomplish my goal of specializing in corporate law
    and taxation.

    On 7/10/08, John wrote:
    > Hi Steve.. this is message #2 to you. Please read my earlier post.
    >
    > If you are interested in enhancing your CPA credentials with tax
    law,
    > you need an LLM in Tax. You dont get there with eJD. Even a bar
    > track JD is very light in tax, with Fed taxation an elective in most
    > schools. If you want complex tax exposure, do an MS Tax at a
    > regionally accredited school. I know Taft has an MS Tax program as
    > well. I would do a regionally accredited program if at all
    > possible. For law: go for an attorney track JD and then an LLM
    Tax.
    > This is the proper sequence in law. The advantage of a JD/LLM over
    > an MS Tax is attorney client priviledge. Some, if not most law
    firms
    > only hire LLM grads in Tax and dont hire MS Tax grads. If you are
    not
    > a law firm candidate, an MS Tax gets you where you need to be. If
    > you are looking at it from a client perspective in a CPA office,
    > clients recognize the MS Tax degree much more than an LLM. Most
    > people dont know what an LLM is - but an MS Tax is very
    > recognizable. Most CPA's dont need an MS Tax unless they are
    > specializing in Corp tax or complex trust and estate planning. I am
    > doing my JD because of my goal of being JD/CPA in my job as a CFO.
    I
    > would do an ABA JD if possible, but I travel quite a bit, and the
    > opportunity cost for me to quit and go to an ABA law school does not
    > make economic sense.
    >
    > Please read my earlier post on non-bar track JD.
    >
    > Hope this helps,
    > John
    >

     
     

 
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