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Teenage Law Grad Thinks Getting A Tax LLM Will Be A ‘Little Vacation’

His idea of rest and relaxation involves the Internal Revenue Code.

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I think it’ll be fun. I like tax, so I think it’s going to be like a little vacation.

Jimmy Chilimigras, who recently graduated from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law at the age of 18, in comments given to the Daily Northwestern, concerning his decision to attend Northwestern Pritzker School of Law to pursue an LLM in Taxation. Chilimigras, who recently sat for the Louisiana bar exam, is one of the youngest people in the country ever to graduate from law school.


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