Well into the 1960’s many law schools were still awarding the LLB. There was a movement to substitute the JD. I know because I first received an LLB and then retroactively the JD in its place as the movement hit my own law school and as an editor there advocated for the JD while there. Also, coincidentally I worked at the time of my last year in law school for the then United States Civil Service Commission, Bureau of Recruiting and Examining as a program developer and the statistics available there showed that government lawyers with a JD were receiving more pay than those with an LLB even though the degrees were as a practical matter identical.
I am still curious as to when "Esquire" came to be accepted. I remember being a bit shocked when I saw the title (?) being used in America and in the Twentieth Century, no less.