It appears Syracuse University has launched the very first ABA accredited online JD program. Here is the link: Syracuse University The web address is: https://onlinejd.syr.edu/
This Syracuse program represents a big step forward in regards to the ABA's willingness to allow online studies. It's probably important to point out that at least some of the classes are synchronous/live and so the student is required to be "in class" at appointed times. I'm assuming that we'll begin to see more of these pop up around the country. Then there will be the requisite price wars as real competition begins. Personally I think that law study would be fascinating. I'm not sure that I'd want to be a lawyer though. Unless I could be like Myron Bolitar.
Now Ted, if you read something other than history books then you might know the answer to that question. Myron Bolitar is a fictional character who appears in a series of novels by Harlan Coben. He is a former athlete, now attorney-sports agent. http://harlancobenbooklist.com/myron-bolitar-series-in-order/
Actually, if Ted wasn't being lazy today, he could have Googled the name and found out who Myron Bolitar is an hour earlier - just as I did. The key question, however, is: How do we know that Ted has really read all of those books?
just a general article about the trend toward online law school https://www.educationdive.com/news/as-enrollment-wavers-law-schools-look-to-expand-online/549589/
Glad to see University of Dayton starting this up in August. As someone that has some familiarity with their campus and the surrounding area, I can see a need filled here.
Kim Kardashian is "reading the law." You know, that old fashioned way to become a lawyer https://people.com/tv/kim-kardashian-studying-to-become-lawyer/
Indeed she is. She says that contracts are "boring", torts are "confusing", and criminal law is "easy". Well crim law may very well be easy for her since her Dad was the nationally famous criminal lawyer, Robert Kardashian, and apparently she was very close to him. Regardless, there will be a lot of eyes on her when she takes the FYLSX (Baby Bar) this summer. I hope she proves out the apprenticing concept and becomes a California attorney. I guess we'll see.
I think her purpose of practicing laws is to work on pro bono cases on convicted felons. However, I think her route is hard to be private attorney.
A few years ago, the Washington State Supreme Court and State Bar established the APR6 Law Clerk program. It's pretty structured program where the clerk, who is a paid employee of a lawyer or Judge, studies Bar subjects on a fixed schedule and is tested regularly. Total cost is trivial compared with any ABA approved law school and is pretty cheap even compared with any California correspondence J.D. program. You don't earn a degree but you DO get a shot at passing the Bar exam. If I were a young man out of college and still living in Washington and wanted to be a lawyer, this is how I'd do it.
