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No. First year law courses are not transferable to any other grad school. Some schools will let you use a credit or two of legal coursework to fulfill some elective in the other grad school coursework. But generally speaking law school credits have no value for anything other than toward graduation from law school.

There is a common misperception that law school somehow prepares you for some career other than being a lawyer. As I said above, the only thing law school does is qualify you to be a practicing lawyer. If you do not have a burning desire to practice law you have no business going to law school. If you go to law school your career options in the future will be limited to jobs that require a law degree. No one hires people with law degrees to do things that don't require law degrees because they will say they don't need a lawyer for that position. If you want to be a lawyer, fine. Law school is where you want to go. But law school isn’t just some souped up grad school where you go because you're smart and will do well at it, and three years later you plan to emerge from your academic cocoon and decide what your next step is. Once you've gone to law school your next step is decided for you. You either get on with the business of being a lawyer or you start all over. From the begining.
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