Accelerated Tax LLM Program for Visiting JD Students

Loyola’s unique 3-year joint JD/Tax LLM Program is also open to JD students already enrolled at other U.S. law schools.

Two tracks are available, one immediately following your first JD year, the second immediately following your second JD year.

Second Year Track

You may visit at Loyola for the 12-month period (mid-May to mid-May) immediately following your first JD year. During the summer, you will participate in Loyola’s unique intensive summer tax session, which provides a rigorous foundation in the basics of tax law. During your second JD year, still visiting at Loyola, you will take at least 12 additional units of advanced tax work. You will then return to your home school for your third JD year, graduating at the end of that year with a JD degree from your home school and a Tax LLM degree from Loyola.

If you pursue the Second Year Track, your three years at law school will look like this:

Third-Year Track

You also have the option to visit at Loyola for the 12-month period (mid-May to mid-May) immediately following your second JD year. During your second-year summer, you will participate in Loyola’s unique intensive summer tax session. You will continue to visit at Loyola for yo

If you pursue this second track, your three years at law school will look like this:

Upon the completion of either track, you will graduate with a JD degree from your home school and a Tax LLM degree from Loyola.

This unique Accelerated Tax LLM Program for Visiting JD Students offers students at other law schools many of the same employment and financial advantages that Loyola’s 3-year joint JD/Tax LLM program offers to Loyola JDs:

• Potential for LLM-level tax employment after three years: Many students cannot afford to spend the additional year it normally takes to complete a stand-alone full-time Tax LLM program. Our Accelerated Tax LLM Program allows you to earn your Tax LLM degree without extending the time you spend in school.
• Enhanced job prospects: During the fall on-campus-interview season at the beginning of their second year (when big firms hire second-year summer associates), students in the first track can offer employers a credential (completion of the intensive summer tax session) not available from any other law school in the United States.
• Second-year summer open: Students in the first track will normally be free to accept big-firm employment during the summer after their second year without conflicting academic obligations.

Finally, this unique Accelerated Tax LLM option is offered by:

• A Top 10 Tax LLM program (US News & World Report) at a law school
• Consistently ranked in the Top 5 in the United States in "best classroom experience" (Princeton Review)
  
  

Applications

Students who have completed the first year of their JD studies at another ABA-accredited law school and wish to participate in the Accelerated Tax LLM Program for Visiting Students should apply no later than May 1. Students interested in participating as visitors should complete (1) Loyola’s standard visitor application (http://www.lls.edu/admissions/visiting/how.html) plus (2) a supplemental 3-year joint JD/Tax LLM application. They must also obtain permission from their home school and assure themselves that the Accelerated Program will allow them to meet their home school's JD requirements.