Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

California is one of the last, if not the last, state to allow students to qualify and prepare for the bar examination without attending an accredited law school. This can be done in accordance with State Bar rules either by correspondence school study or by supervised study with a law office. In order to avoid wasting time on a futile course of action, you need to contact the California State Bar directly to get (a) the rules themselves, and (b) the statistics on the number of bar-exam applicants who qualified and passed. The numbers are rather discouraging. Very few correspondence-school or office-study candidates pass the bar exam. Yours truly studied for the California bar exam with LaSalle Correspondence School starting in 1960. Forty years and a career of experience later, I graduated from night law school and took and passed the bar. In retrospect, I have serious doubts that I could have passed the California bar exam based on a correspondence education alone. I also have an engineering degree and an MBA from one of the nation's toughest universities.

Mr. Whipple's advice is sound, but does not answer your question. The answer is that there is no "program" that you can "get into." It is a set of rules and procedures that allow people to take the bar exam and become lawyers without going to law school if they meet strict criteria and are sponsored by a member of the bar. Further information is available at www.calbar.ca.gov