The unsocractic method

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The first law school grads to earn their degree completely online have just passed the California bar, according to the LAT. I’m all for this kind of advance, but would you hire these guys to represent you? Probably not if you could avoid it.

The school is called Concord Law School and holds class exclusively online through video, e-mail, and chat rooms. It is owned by Kaplan, which (I didn’t know this) is owned by the Washington Post. At $7,500 a year, the price is right and is filling a useful niche:

Unlike students at traditional law schools, many of Concord’s students — many of them doctors and accountants whose average age is 42 — are getting law degrees to enhance their skills at their current jobs, according to law school officials.

May 31, 2003 | Comments

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  1. Posted by Amy Phillips - 06/11/2003

    “If you can avoid it” is the operative term here. There are thousands of people who, because they can’t pay hundreds of dollars an hour for an attorney, don’t have access to the legal system. There are couples still married because divorce is expensive, people who die without wills, fraud and other torts going unpunished, etc. While I’d prefer a system where one insular group didn’t have a monopoly on the use of the courts (currently, it’s illegal to pay anyone other than a Bar licensed lawyer to represent you in court, and only lawyers can file certain documents), I’m glad that they’re at least relaxing the requirements enough to allow a little more access.

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