If you become a lawyer, aren't you basically stuck in your country?

[leonie36]

Unless you work for your country's embassy, aren't you basically stuck in your country? Meaning you can't move overseas because you're an expert on your country's laws and not another's?

However, if you do corporate law, could you work for an American company if they have an overseas location? (It's obviously possible, but is it common?)

[fyfe]

Lawyers research alot, they're used to studying. You can get a license to practice law without going to law school in another country/another state as long as you can pass the bar exam at each location. Ever see "Catch Me if You Can?" with Leonardo DiCaprio?

[nicolas]

Even if you do corporate law, you would have to learn the laws of the other country since the company would be bound by those laws for its opeations there.

[mads]

My sister is a lawyer with the Judge Advocate General's office with the U.S. Airforce and she leaves in a week and a half to go live in Germany for a couple years. She doesn't have to know German law because the airmen are still held to U.S. law even in other countries, and she could end up going anywhere. I don't know how common that is, but it's another way to get to travel and practice law. Plus, she only had to pass the bar once and it's valid anywhere she serves in the military.