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December 18, 2002
A: FROM MENTOR CHRISTINE KUTA
IN MA
Full-time law school takes three years, generally. There are
also
part-time programs, where the classes are mostly in the evening,
and it
usually takes four years to graduate. If you go to school
year round
including summers, you can graduate from a part-time program
in 3 1/2 years.
Keep in mind that most law schools expect you to have some
kind of
undergraduate degree before you are admitted to law school
so that will add
3-4 years onto your total number of years if you start the
count at high
school graduation.
There is a little-known alternative to law school if you happen
to want
to practice law in one of the few states that allows you to
apprentice to a
lawyer rather than go to law school (it doesn't get you out
of taking the bar
exam though!). Vermont is one state that allows apprentices
to become
lawyers. The rule is that you apprentice yourself to a Vermont
lawyer,
meaning that you go to work for this person and learn the
law while you work.
After four years of apprenticeship, you can take the bar exam.
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