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re: Bay St. Louis teen becomes one of youngest to graduate from law school
Posted on 5/15/26 at 7:48 am to Sus-Scrofa
Posted on 5/15/26 at 7:48 am to Sus-Scrofa
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accountant/cpa lawyers with the LLM
The smartest guys I’ve ever known were CPA tax attorneys.
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Posted on 5/15/26 at 7:49 am to UFFan
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Wouldn’t those be the lawyers who help people like George Soros and Donald Trump reduce their tax bill to $0.00? I always thought those were the most hated lawyers.
Like Trump has said, he didn’t write the tax laws, he just has to hire a small army to figure out the ridiculous tax system the politicians put in place.
It’d be malpractice to advise a client to pay more taxes than he has to under the system in place.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 7:55 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
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social justice
No one going to comment on this? I wonder what that class teaches.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 7:56 am to tigeralum06
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They do and they make less money. At the end of the day he is selling time for a fee. Trial Lawyers are selling time for a 30% upside. Huge difference. I can’t imagine rushing through childhood to be a tax lawyer.
Depends on what he does. One thing he is doing is getting a degree from an elite school for am LLM. Often kids that fly through school never go to an elite school and actually limit their opportunities when it comes to job search time. The LLM from Northwestern changes that, a T14 law school and top 2 or 3 for an LLM.
He will never make a ton of money (relatively) being a pure tax attorney, but we have lots of attorneys with LLMs in our firm that use it in much better paid niches like IP, Mergers and Acquisitions, and international work.
PI law has a corollary with the trades that tOT likes to talk about. The vast majority make (relatively) low-end wages but the ones that own a larger firm can make huge money. 7 figures is common and 8 is not unheard of.
It is interesting people hate PI attorneys more than their Big Law corporate cousins. Big Law facilitates FAR more "damage" to individuals than PI attorneys.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 8:06 am to tigeralum06
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They do and they make less money. At the end of the day he is selling time for a fee. Trial Lawyers are selling time for a 30% upside. Huge difference. I can’t imagine rushing through childhood to be a tax lawyer.
Depends on their client base and their fee structures. The high end tax lawyers can print money.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 8:12 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
You guys really think hes going to finish all this school at age 20 and settle in to a 9-5 job crunching peoples taxes until retirement? Doubt it. More likely the kid will be a career student with 50 degrees and end up teaching or doing research or something like that.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 8:19 am to NIH
Loyola is Harvard for Louisiana plaintiff lawyers. Wendell Gauthier, Morris Bart, Gordon McKernan, etc.
He'll need a catch phrase. "Young gun" maybe? "Doogie Esquire"? This kid is going to have a lot of fun. No way he's doing tax law or big law corporate. Look for him on a billboard on I-10. Watch his commercials during daytime TV.
He'll need a catch phrase. "Young gun" maybe? "Doogie Esquire"? This kid is going to have a lot of fun. No way he's doing tax law or big law corporate. Look for him on a billboard on I-10. Watch his commercials during daytime TV.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 8:29 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
I hope he gets out and sees the world and experiences the world before trying to change the world.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 8:36 am to TheOcean
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If SFP had a son
He'd be a runner in this kid's firm
Posted on 5/15/26 at 8:45 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
What a waste of such a brilliant mind. Ambulance chasing instead of trying to cure cancer.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:09 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
Imagine accomplishing all of that only to be replaced by AI before the age of 30
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:29 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
I know a couple of kids like that. They fly through school a d graduate at 17 or 18. That is very impressive and all however, they typically lack the social skills and maturity to capitalize much on it. The guys I have known typically bounce around in corporate America for a couple of years and shift to academia to become a college professor or something like that.
They are always successful in life, but seldom as successful as you’d think,
They are always successful in life, but seldom as successful as you’d think,
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:35 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
Hope he knows the law that he cannot drink alcohol for a few more years.
Then he can be out next PI Attorney overlord.
Joking aside, mightily impressive!
Then he can be out next PI Attorney overlord.
Joking aside, mightily impressive!
This post was edited on 5/15/26 at 9:37 am
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:36 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
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A Louisiana teen prodigy became the youngest person in the state to earn a law degree over the weekend.
James “Jimmy” Chilimigras, 18, graduated summa cum laude with his Juris Doctor (JD) from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law on Saturday, adding a third degree to his already impressive resume.
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Chilimigras, from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, has excelled in academics throughout his young life. He was homeschooled and graduated high school at just 12 years old before he earned a bachelor’s and a master’s in accounting at 15.
Around the same time in 2023, Chilimigras became a CPA, believed to be the youngest person in the world to obtain the license.
ok but what's his batting avg?
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:36 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
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which include taxation law, social justice, immigration and citizenship law,
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social justice
are you shitting me? Will probably be another leftist trying to flood the country with troglodytes hostile to their host and unwilling to assimilate.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:39 am to Salviati
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A kid that smart ought to be smart enough to not go to Loyola.
He could live at home and attend classes.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:43 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
Should have gone to electrician school
Signed,
The OT
Signed,
The OT
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:49 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
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graduate from law school
Will be on a billboard in 3, 2, 1...
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:51 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
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People like that will have a massive firm within 10 years and a whole slew of attorneys working for him, he will be ultra wealthy by the time he’s 30.
That’s good. I’m not going to hate him any less.,
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