Found: $1,500 (TOTAL) At-own-pace Law School

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Good luck on the baby bar!

Your plan to study for 2 more years, work 20 months under supervision, and take the bar?

Actually, I have 3 more years (as a part-time program, it takes 4 years).

Thanks for the encouragement, though.

The "Baby Bar" has an 80% fail rate, but, I'm still hopeful to pass it, first time out. I know one guy who did just that. However, I know another, the somewhat famous Ray Hayden, who passed it on his sixth attempt! That's perseverance!

I'll probably take the Bar, in Virginia, though, long before I finish the JD, though, just because I can and because it's considered on the easier side of state bar exams.

137 days to go until I sit for the exam!

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FYI, California also allows a "reading the law" apprenticeship to qualify to sit for the bar. But something like only 4 people had ever done it at the point I last looked a couple years ago. Any idea how common it is in VA?

By the way, none of those 7 states with lower admission requirements will take the Cal-Bar school on it's own for sitting for the bar. They'll require other things (like the VA apprenticeship which could be done without the CA school, though I guess the CA school might make it easier). 0 state bars currently have reciprocity with California. Not too long ago after a court battle, one state bar gave a distinguished lawyer reciprocity in a specific state (I want to say MI, but this was a few years back and my memory is hazy), but they made it clear they were not setting this as the standard and going forward they would continue to deny reciprocity and CalBar schools as matter of policy.

You could work in federal courts after passing the California Bar, though!

haven't looked into the commonality, here in Va., of passing, after just reading the law.

I figured that if I pass the gauntlet of the Baby Bar, I have a decent shot, after some additional subjects studied, of passing Va.'s

I do recall a story - and, of course, we hear about these, because they're remarkable - of a gal passing the Calif. bar, after only "reading the law." Awesome. Wish I were that kind of autodidact.