Re: Concord Law School
Posted by John on 7/12/08

On 7/12/08, Mary Ann wrote:
> Does anyone have any comments on Concord?


Concord is a very successful online school Mary Ann. You
will not get socratic teaching, or have a professor ask you
to brief a case in front of the class, or explain a legal
theory, but you will be able to call your own hours for your
own study time. They have canned video lectures that you
watch at a time of your own choosing. And computerized
modules to track your reading completion to keep you on
pace. I highly considered Concord, and called many times
about the program talking to their enrollment advisors and
to the dean. I also called a Concord graduate and asked him
about the program and how he liked it. You may want to do
the same. The program has grown considerably as you can tell
on the Cal Bar pass rate stats. However, I decided that
interaction with a law professor is one of the hallmarks of
getting a good legal education. If you cannot set aside a
regular time to attend a class, Concord is not a bad way to
go. It's more expensive than other online and pure
correspondence programs, but you will have a large cohort in
your class group. Note that you really dont interact with
anyone, its mainly self study and meeting once a week for a
online chat session with the instructor. The main goal of
the school is to prep you for the BB and Cal bar exam, and
based upon their pass rates they do a better job than most.
Perhaps forming a study group would be advantageous to
overcome this obsticle. I have an online study group at Cal
SL, where we are able to speak and hear each other
contemporaneously and go over the case reading and outlining
for exam prep. We meet once a week. The setup is very
useful. You might want to check to see what programs are
there to interact with other students, I think they encourage
study groups, but mainly let the students organize for
themselves outside the school such as with a yahoo group
account. Going it alone in a law program is a rough road,
but its done all the time so just have to be extremely
disciplined to keep on pace. Since my online class is
totally interactive, we get to talk to each other and
encourage each other through the rough spots and before and
after exams, and complain about how we missed certain
elements on the exam. If you were at Concord, where you dont
get to talk to anybody, I would find a study buddy or a few
of them just to interact about the program for encouragement
and feedback.

Here is a link to a successful Taft student talking about
what it takes to complete a correspondence JD program and
passing the bar:

http://www.asis.com/users/edenson/lawstudy.html

Check it out. Its a little old but still absolutely relevant
for any correspondence student. I even use it to guide my
outlining and memorization technique.

John

Posts on this thread, including this one

• Concord Law School, 7/12/08, by Mary Ann.
• Re: Concord Law School, 7/12/08, by John.
• Re: Concord Law School/Taft, 7/13/08, by Karen.
• Re: Concord Law School/Taft, 7/13/08, by Jack B..
• Re: Concord Law School/Taft, 7/13/08, by Paulo.
• Re: Concord Law School/Taft, 7/14/08, by George.
• Re: Concord Law School, 7/15/08, by Manoj.
• Re: Concord Law School, 7/25/08, by Phil.
• Re: Concord Law School, 7/28/08, by Revfidel.