Legal Question in Constitutional Law in California

How can I become a Lawyer without going to Law School or any 2/4 year school?

How can I become a Lawyer

without going to Law School?

I live in California and want to

become a lawyer in California.


Asked on 12/10/08, 6:00 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

Edward Hoffman Law Offices of Edward A. Hoffman

Re: How can I become a Lawyer without going to Law School or any 2/4 year school?

You can apprentice (though that is not the term presently used) with a lawyer for several years while she teaches you the law and oversees your education. Very few aspiring lawyers try this route, and very few established lawyers are willing to take on an apprentice -- especially one who hasn't even started college.

Relatively few of those who have apprenticed have been able to pass the California Bar exam. Even those that do must have a very hard time finding jobs.

There probably aren't more than about 25 or 30 lawyers in the state who were admitted this way. Most of them apprenticed while living in remote parts of the state where there were no nearby law schools and while they were unable to relocate for three years in order to attend law school.

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Answered on 12/10/08, 7:05 am


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