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Manifestor_of_Light

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8. That's amazing.
Thu Nov 26, 2015, 11:01 PM
Nov 2015

A 2 year law program? I wonder how they did that. My dad went to law school after The Big One on the GI Bill, and then you had to have 60 semester hours of college, and law school was 90 hours. You graduated with an LLB, a Bachelor of Laws.

Then in the 1960s before I went, they changed it to requiring a bachelor's degree for admission, but law school still is 90 semester hours. And now you get a higher degree, now it's a Juris Doctor or Doctor of Jurisprudence in English. They call it a three year program, but I had to work and took 5 years. It was about three times harder than college and most of college wasn't that hard for me.

Sometime before I went to law school, they changed the law. There were some people that would study under a lawyer, and not take formal classes. They called that "reading for the bar". I don't think anywhere in the U.S. does that any more. I could be wrong.

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