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Is there anyone out there doing this Study Law in Office program?

Thanks!
Category: CA - California Bar Exam

regular

sorry, I am not, but hope you can reach these people online somewhere:)

An Alternative Education for Lawyers: Apprentices Take Law Into Their Own Hands
http://susanohanian.org/show_yahoo.html?id=98

California is one of 8 states in the nation which allows aspiring
lawyers to study under another attorney
http://calbar.ca.gov/calbar/2cbj/96dec/3art1.htm

..."Today, Comacho, 38, is general counsel of the United Farm Workers
(UFW), based in the agricultural community of Keene, outside
Bakersfield....."I would do it again," says Comacho, who passed the
bar on his first attempt in 1986...."

..."Gary Blasi, 51, of Los Angeles is on the faculty of UCLA Law
School, but remembers only two occasions when he actually sat in on a
law school class -- and neither occurred while he was a law
student..."

..."For Marilyn Kalman, 43, of San Francisco, a solo practitioner in
the area of landlord-tenant law, the opportunity to study on her own
meant she was debt-free after she passed the bar exam..."

..."Mary Mecartney works in Watsonville as a staff attorney with the
UFW. She passed the bar in 1988, after five years of study. At the
time she had two young children and "they would come and crawl and sit

Never too old to practice, bar veterans keep going
http://calbar.ca.gov/calbar/2cbj/96jan/2cbj10.htm

..."Shostak came to California, attended business college and worked
as a law clerk, eventually studying law through a State Bar
apprenticeship program.....She was admitted to the bar in 1945 and now
two of her nephews practice with her in the 10-member firm..."


Skip Law School, Be a Lawyer Anyway
http://www.slate.com/id/2108397
According to a Los Angeles Times survey from earlier this month, just
20 percent of that state's apprentices have passed the bar exam,
versus over 50 percent of law school graduates.
on top of my books" while she was studying..."