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Q.I'm trying to do some research on my own regarding the possibility of my becoming a lawyer. I am currently self employed, work with small businesses, and have been doing so for many years. Therefore, I would like to get into business law and work with startups, angel deals, buyouts, as well as being a general advisor to these small companies. I am currently a business consultant, and I have a lot of experience and interest in these areas. I have a lot of questions, and I'm still at the point where the answers I find are leading to more questions. For example, I have a wife and kids, and I run a business full time. I had always thought that I could never become a lawyer because of the amount of time I would need to spend at school. Well, guess what: in California there are other options, including correspondence school, setting up shop at a lawyers office, perhaps sub-leasing some space to run my current business, then and studying in the evening under the direction of a lawyer, studying in a judges chambers for twenty-five hours a week, correspondence school, etc. etc. etc. Being that I intend to remain self employed, I don't need a name brand education, and while options such as these are certainly not ideal, I have to consider these options from a practical perspective. I see three factors at play here: my desire to succeed, my ability to learn in a self directed manner, and the fact that attending an ABA school is pretty much out of the question for me at a number of levels. Being that employability is not a factor in my decision, and that I will concede to the fact that going to school full time would be better if it were possible, I'd like to ask for general comments in regards to these options.
A.That's all correct. When you pick one of those options, however, your legal education will require an additional year of class time. That is to say that it won't just be longer because you take more time, but the number of classes and the time you spend on them will be 33 percent longer. If you do either a correspondence school or intern with a lawyer, there is a requirement of a large number of hours per year - more than 900 as I recall, that must be certified. After the first year of classes or internship, you will be required to take an exam referred to as the "baby bar." You will have to pass that exam before you can continue on. This is not the case for accredited school. You may be able to find an accredited school that gives classes at night, and takes longer than the traditional three years. If you do that you will not be required to take that extra years worth of classes or do the baby bar.
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