Law School is thought to be huge money - but you can become a Lawyer for about $12,000 - not including books and Bar Exams required - about $800 each exam - two required.

Actually, if you do this - do not make the mistake of becoming a public defender - it will put you on a path to unhappiness and low pay.

Normally for about $30,000 complete - $555.00 per month, on-line - about $20 per day, you can do this, at  a true DETC school, and here is the comprehensive source to scholarships - Click Here! - but we have a source to a non-DETC  Law School that will do it for 12K - YES $12,000 - complete via monthly installments as you go with no credit check even for about $300 per month.  You'll need to contact us using the contact form after signing up on this site.

No LSAT to take either.  Look for the ads on this site or buy our Legal Procedure Secretary CD course or book.  You only need 60 credits college work - and actually you might not need that because you can "CLEP" down the requirement with "testing out". Click Here!

What is the catch?  At MOST California schools for on-line study you do need a Bachelors Degree of some sort, and you will only be able to practice in STATE courts in California.  BUT YOU CAN PRACTICE IN ANY Federal Court - anywhere you are admitted by that court once licensed in any one state.

BUT the reality is you only need 60 credits - that is be a Sophomore in a University to EASILY enter Law School in California and you can do so ON-LINE.  You can get help on how to study - Click Here!

You can however once licensed in California get admitted to practice in most ALL Federal Courts, as well as before the Social Security Administration and US Patent and Trademark Office if you pass their Patent Examiners test.  There are other Federal Agencies you can practice before, and you can appear pro hac vice - meaning with the permission of the local State or other Court - on certain specialty cases you might intend to remove to Federal Court et cetera.

Once licensed you can usually practice pro hac vice in any Federal Court in America, and some state will allow you to also on a case by case basis.

HOWEVER, for Regular Students: In accordance with the Rule VII, Section 81 of the Rules Regulating Admission to Practice Law in California, many Schools of Law require that applicants for admission as regular students have only completed at least 60 semester units or 90 quarter units of studies constituting not less than one-half of the total acceptable for a bachelor's degree at a qualified institution. At least 90 percent of the total credits earned must be in courses with substantive content or training. In addition, the applicant's grade point average for all courses with substantive content must be at least equal to the average required for graduating from the institutions attended, which is ordinarily 2.0 or better on the 4.0 grading system. However, all students are encouraged to complete their bachelor's degree studies before applying.

BUT . . .  many California Law Schools have provisions for Special Students: A student who has a strong desire to become a lawyer, but who cannot qualify for admission as a "regular" student, may apply for admission as a "special" student. In all cases the applicant for admission as a special student must submit the same information required of regular students. Since the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) score Click Here! is important to the special student, persons seeking admission as special students are advised to complete the LSAT early in the processing year, but in no event later than June of the year in which admission is sought. Applicants who do not have the required 60 semester units must also take the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) test prior to admission to law school. To meet the Committee of Bar Examiners' requirements for entrance to law school, an applicant must attain passing scores on the following general examinations administered by CLEP: (1) Under Composition and Literature category, College Composition, AND (2) Two other examinations, each designed to correspond to full-year courses (6 semester hours each*) or four other examinations, each designed to correspond to semester courses (3 semester hours each*) that can be selected from any of the following subjects: Composition and Literature (Humanities examination only); Foreign Languages; History and Social Sciences; Science and Mathematics; Business.  If you want to get into college - or into college early a high SAT score will help and here's how to get that => Click Here!

So . . .  technically, one can get into some California Law Schools without the 60 credits and who have taken the LSAT.  Click Here! Many schools do not advertise this, but they all will gladly take your money if you wave it at them. 

What does this mean?   It means in theory you could go STRAIGHT to Law School and become licensed to practice law - a.k.a be a REAL Lawyer - without even obtaining a BS.  THEN - the smart person later goes ON to get a Masters in Law (an LL.M)  from an ABA accredited school later - maybe after a few years of practice - or not.  As the saying goes - you are a good as the last thing you did.  It is the license to practice law that matters - not the degree. 

Now if you are one of those who has big plans for your child, or ever wondered how you have heard of children graduating College at 12 to 14 years old - these principles herein are how - and usually they were homeschooled right through 12th grade - High School Graduation.  Check this out => Click Here!

Of course how GOOD of a Lawyer you are is up to you, but you can come out and be licensed nearly debt free with a legal education that lets you run your own corporation, and settle insurance claims and lots of things . . . like have Police respect and fear you.

How can you do this - you ask yourself?  Easy - by studying legal procedure and buying even Legal Secretary Procedure Books and CD's to teach yourself law.  Learn the secrets smart students know!!   Click Here! You can frequent law libraries and read legal procedure manuals, and even sit in courtrooms and watch the B-S go on.

Click here for where you can get a summary of how to become a Lawyer without setting foot in a Law School.  But . . .  if you want to go the "old school" way to getting into traditional ABA Law Schools then here you go => Click Here!

Let's break this on down. Tuition is about $7,500 each year for many of the on-line California law schools - and you can take the classes anywhere you have your computer.  Sure you will need to travel to California after the First year to take the "Baby Bar", and then at the end of the  four years to take the actual Bar exam and hopefully pass to become licensed to practice,  but for about twenty dollars a day for four years - you can become a Lawyer.  Some people pay that much for auto insurance.

So, you can go deep in debt to get a Law Degree, and become a Lawyer; or you can take a shortcut to a license to practice law,  pay tuition monthly of less than $300, study in your pajamas or underwear, and then go back and legitmize yourself  after your pass the Bar, all you want with an LLM later.  Which way is wiser?