Legal Question in Business Law in California

If you are asking about California's bar-admission rules that permit study of law in preparation for the bar exam by such unusual methods as correspondence study or study while working for a lawyer or judge, I can tell you that the success (bar passing) rate is very, very low.

I studied law by correspondence with LaSalle Extension University in the 1950s and passed the "Baby Bar" for first-year law students outside accredited schools on my second try in about 1963. Then I got serious about my career in business and didn't think about law school again until 1996, when I enrolled in night law school (Empire College in Santa Rosa). I got an excellent education while keeping my day job, passed the bar on my first attempt, and have practiced as a solo ever since.

I have followed alternative means of preparing for the bar as a matter of curiosity. I find the bar-pass success rate, as well and the number of candidates attemptingthese alternative routes, to be very, very low. I think California is the las state to even allow someone to prepare for the bar by study in a law office or by correspondence. I hate to discourage anyone from trying, but my advice is to find a law school, even a state-accredited-only night school, that will (a) accept you, and (b) has a respectable bar-exam passing rate.

Good luck; studying law is fun and study in a school with others adds to the experience.