[jacabado]

Not apropos your post, but slightly relevant.

After having some involuntary contact with law, I found that I love to read laws and jurisdiction. I'm finishing my MsC in computer engineering and would love to try to pursue a career that would intersect technology and law. I've just found a LLM, a masters in Law, that doesn't requires a Law degree in the University of Edinburgh, they even have the possibility for distance learning. (http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/teaching/llm/llminnovationtechn...)

Can you tell me what should I expect to do with such degree? I was thinking something like paralegal work on technology related cases.

Besides that, what could I do to prepare myself before entering the LLM? I'm almost completely ignorant on most Law concepts/theory.

Thanks, and good luck for your startup. I had thought of something like that but for the government decrees, to increase state transparency.

[grabeh]

I'm sure plenty of firms would be interested in a candidate who has a good grasp of technical concepts so why not look to convert to become a lawyer by applying for training contracts with law firms? Many firms like candidates who have done a first degree and will fund you to do the conversion course. It's obviously a very competitive space but then due to the excess of law grads, so is the paralegal space.

Your course provider is best placed to advise on some good introductory texts to the subject you are studying. Some general introductory books along the lines of 'How to study law' may be of interest however.

Speaking as a lawyer, many of the legal concepts you will come across are relatively straightforward, it is the subsequent process of applying them to the facts where problems arise, but if you have a logical mind (which is likely to be the case coming from a computer engineering background) then you should be ok.