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are tax law classes useful for anything
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Date: October 13th, 2015 1:02 PM Author: House-broken Factory Reset Button Legal Warrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3015766&forum_id=2#28957394) |
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Date: October 13th, 2015 1:05 PM Author: citrine whorehouse If you're not miserable enough, they can help with that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3015766&forum_id=2#28957412) |
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Date: October 13th, 2015 1:07 PM Author: House-broken Factory Reset Button Legal Warrant you don't think tax is useful? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3015766&forum_id=2#28957437) |
Date: October 13th, 2015 1:07 PM Author: slippery insane university hunting ground it depends.
if you want to do securities law (why would you want to?) or litigation, I don't think tax classes would be that helpful. The theory you learn in class just doesn't come up in those types of transactions - as a corporate lawyer you'll never need to explain to a client how the tax structure in a bond offering works.
Perhaps marginally helpful if you are doing M&A.
If you want to do anything like tax, estates, investment management, fund formation, then it would be extremely helpful.
In all cases though you can pick it up on the job. |
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Date: October 13th, 2015 1:10 PM Author: khaki water buffalo intro to tax is pretty useful just from a practical standpoint in knowing the basics of how shit works (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3015766&forum_id=2#28957452) |
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Date: October 13th, 2015 1:15 PM Author: Overrated casino for most people, FIT for individuals is enough. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3015766&forum_id=2#28957491) |
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Date: October 13th, 2015 1:11 PM Author: Trip stag film no. not at all. fed income tax doesn't even seem like it would be useful for tax work. corp tax/partnership tax are probably useful for tax work though. dont see how it would apply for anything else. ljl at the though it would be useful for general corporate shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3015766&forum_id=2#28957461) |
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Date: October 13th, 2015 1:17 PM Author: Overrated casino I'll speak for myself. taking tax classes as a hedge against a shitty law school/job market worked out for me getting employment. but, truth is, that's exactly all it is. A hedge. if the market is good, don't do it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3015766&forum_id=2#28957505) |
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Date: October 13th, 2015 1:20 PM Author: Trip stag film are you suggesting that you succesfully marketed taking tax classes to land a job? what classes did you take? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3015766&forum_id=2#28957528) |
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Date: October 13th, 2015 2:16 PM Author: Overrated casino yes. I'm unemployedmo right now, but not for lack of offers. I always have big4tax as a fall back.
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Date: October 13th, 2015 1:18 PM Author: maroon plaza Probably the most useful class I took in law school. Don't use it for work but I've saved several thousand dollars in taxes based on what I learned in tax class. Prolly could've gotten the same info from bogleheads or whatever and YMMV based on what your teacher focuses on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3015766&forum_id=2#28957516) |
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Date: October 13th, 2015 2:12 PM Author: confused wild piazza i do securities/high-yield/lev fin.
intro tax course was not useful (except as prereq to corp tax) but was surprisingly interesting (by standards of law classes)
corp tax is marginally worthwhile because it's nice to know the lingo, so i would say it's more useful than "advanced seminar on animal cruelty law" but way less useful than sec reg or m&a or something. |