Online law
June 26, 2011 4:03 PM Subscribe
Anyone ever attend, or know someone who attended, an online law school?
I know all of the reasons not to: law school is hard; you have to go to a real school; no one hires people who went to online law schools; being a lawyer sucks, etc. That is not my question, please do not tell me this, it is not my question.
What I want to know is if you or someone you know has gone to one of the California online law schools, what was it like? Did the person graduate? What are they doing now?
I have a bachelor's degree and two masters' degrees all from very prestigious and elite schools. For reasons that cannot change, I cannot attend law school in person (I am not in prison). Having a law degree would enhance my career. I do not need to actually practice law as a career.
Where I live and work people get online and distance doctoral degrees in education, nursing, and information science. Most people with degrees have them from 3rd tier institutions. So my current education pretty much outclasses most everyone I work with.
I know all of the reasons not to: law school is hard; you have to go to a real school; no one hires people who went to online law schools; being a lawyer sucks, etc. That is not my question, please do not tell me this, it is not my question.
What I want to know is if you or someone you know has gone to one of the California online law schools, what was it like? Did the person graduate? What are they doing now?
I have a bachelor's degree and two masters' degrees all from very prestigious and elite schools. For reasons that cannot change, I cannot attend law school in person (I am not in prison). Having a law degree would enhance my career. I do not need to actually practice law as a career.
Where I live and work people get online and distance doctoral degrees in education, nursing, and information science. Most people with degrees have them from 3rd tier institutions. So my current education pretty much outclasses most everyone I work with.
Response by poster: Read that post already, it does not talk about the experience of attending an online law school
posted by wandering_not_lost at 4:17 PM on June 26, 2011
posted by wandering_not_lost at 4:17 PM on June 26, 2011
Anyone ever attend, or know someone who attended, an online law school?
From the link I provided:
Someone close to me went to Concord Law School and is now a practicing attorney with a firm in California. . .
posted by mlis at 4:22 PM on June 26, 2011
From the link I provided:
Someone close to me went to Concord Law School and is now a practicing attorney with a firm in California. . .
posted by mlis at 4:22 PM on June 26, 2011
Response by poster: Actually I am more interested in the experience of going to online law school. I know what I will be doing when I graduate. But if everyone who did graduate from an online school is working as a fry cook, I would be interested in knowing.
posted by wandering_not_lost at 4:25 PM on June 26, 2011
posted by wandering_not_lost at 4:25 PM on June 26, 2011
I had an acquaintance who went an online law school in California. She had an illness that sometimes left her extremely tired and her health was unpredictable so it was a good choice for her. She did graduate and I believe she did pass the bar and now works with a solo practitioner. However, she is also filthy rich with a lot of connections family and otherwise, which I think may be how she got her job, but I don't know that for a fact. I never heard any complaints about her school, but to be honest she didn't advertise what school she went to and I only knew through a mutual friend. But I have to admit it worked out much better for her than my cynical self predicted when I first heard she went to an online school.
posted by whoaali at 4:43 PM on June 26, 2011
posted by whoaali at 4:43 PM on June 26, 2011
I'm the commenter who knows someone who went to Concord. It was a high quality, rigorous, demanding program. She studied as much as I did at my elite law school. There were the same type of textbooks, same kind of lectures, and the rigor was necessary to give the students any chance of passing the California first year law student's exam. I have great respect for the education that Concord students get. And you will not be alone in having elite credentials from your prior education. A number of Concord grads had degrees from top (Ivy, Ivy type, and big state) universities.
posted by jayder at 5:19 PM on June 26, 2011
posted by jayder at 5:19 PM on June 26, 2011
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posted by mlis at 4:15 PM on June 26, 2011