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Re: California School of Law
Posted by John on 7/10/08

    Hi Steve.. this is message #2 to you. Please read my earlier post.

    If you are interested in enhancing your CPA credentials with tax law,
    you need an LLM in Tax. You dont get there with eJD. Even a bar
    track JD is very light in tax, with Fed taxation an elective in most
    schools. If you want complex tax exposure, do an MS Tax at a
    regionally accredited school. I know Taft has an MS Tax program as
    well. I would do a regionally accredited program if at all
    possible. For law: go for an attorney track JD and then an LLM Tax.
    This is the proper sequence in law. The advantage of a JD/LLM over
    an MS Tax is attorney client priviledge. Some, if not most law firms
    only hire LLM grads in Tax and dont hire MS Tax grads. If you are not
    a law firm candidate, an MS Tax gets you where you need to be. If
    you are looking at it from a client perspective in a CPA office,
    clients recognize the MS Tax degree much more than an LLM. Most
    people dont know what an LLM is - but an MS Tax is very
    recognizable. Most CPA's dont need an MS Tax unless they are
    specializing in Corp tax or complex trust and estate planning. I am
    doing my JD because of my goal of being JD/CPA in my job as a CFO. I
    would do an ABA JD if possible, but I travel quite a bit, and the
    opportunity cost for me to quit and go to an ABA law school does not
    make economic sense.

    Please read my earlier post on non-bar track JD.

    Hope this helps,
    John

    On 7/09/08, steve wrote:
    > Hi John,
    >
    > I am a CPA and also graduated from UC Berkeley.
    > I am thinking about pursuing eJD with Taft and specializing in tax
    > law.
    > Are you pursuing bar or non-bar track?
    >
    >
    >
    > On 7/09/08, John wrote:
    >> Hi Karen,
    >>
    >> If you are talking about the California School of Law, I am a
    >> student there, finishing up my first year. It is an online law
    >> school but is conducted not as a correspondence program but is
    >> live interactive with a law professor via VoIP (using a headset
    >> with microphone) in a regular classroom setting. The school
    >> employs the socratic method where you are called on by the
    >> professor to brief and analyze cases and discuss the law. If
    > you
    >> are not going to an ABA school, this is the best alternative.
    >> Check out the school for yourself, I highly recommend the
    >> program. I am a UC Berkeley grad and was going to apply to ABA
    >> schools, but since I am already getting my CPA license and my
    >> field is accounting, I do not see myself in a law firm and
    >> decided to pursue a less costly alternative, but with virtually
    >> the same process (i.e. needing to be in a classroom setting with
    >> a live professor using the socratic method). Otherwise, I would
    >> go ABA and pay the money and go full time. The school has solid
    >> ABA grad professors who actually do a good job at grilling and
    >> making sure you are on track for understanding and arguing the
    >> law as well as preparing you for the Cal. bar exam.
    >>
    >> John
    >>
    >> www.californiaschooloflaw.com
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> On 4/23/08, Karen Johnson wrote:
    >>> Did you all hear about the new california law school
    >>> that has just started up?
    >>>
    >>> On 4/23/08, Robert wrote:
    >>>> that was not posted by me.
    >>>>
    >>>> dont you correspondence wannabe lawyers
    >>>> have anything else to do?
    >>>>
    >>>> On 4/23/08, -- wrote:
    >>>>> Well, are we all having fun? Just thought I would cut and
    >>>>> paste the mission statement of this forum.
    >>>>>
    >>>>> "These chatboards were developed specifically for law
    >>>>> students. Law students are encouraged to freely explore
    >>>>> cases and theories comprising American jurisprudence, and
    >>>>> network with fellow law students across the country.
    >>>>> Attorneys are invited to participate in a mentor capacity."

     
     

 
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