Re: Non Accredited vs Accredited

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On 10/22/07, CP wrote:
> Certification? Of what? Attorneys? There will never be a
> national standard. The states like their autonomy, and other
> states charge more than others for bar exams and attorney
> registrations.
>
> As for whether it matters to the public, I think what you are
> saying is hogwash. The average joe probably thinks the
> paralegal they are speaking to at a law office is an attorney
> (I give people a lot of credit, but law can be confusing, just
> ask a Harvard Law student).
>
> Student loans? Just enroll at a school like West Coast, where
> you will spend no more than $1500 a year for a grand total of
> $6,000 to take the bar exam. Is it Harvard? No. Will people
> respect you any less if you own your own one man practice? Not
> a bit. Do they care at the DA's office (and yes, there are
> hundreds in California who went the correspondence or law
> office study route). Get real. No one cares unless you really
> care about having the corner office in some schmoozy law firm
> where you have 2600 billable hours a year. Wake up and smell
> the coffee.
>
> More than ten U.S. presidents, a current Vermont Supreme Court
> Justice, and a law professor at UCLA all became lawyers
without
> setting foot in a classroom. Didn't seem to matter to them.
Why
> does it matter to you? I would like to hear your answer. Why
> does it matter to YOU personally. Not the ABA, but to YOU.
>
> CP

Well--some people just prefer quality. For one thing, I don't
have to sit next to a maniac like you in class. Better than 80%
of my class will pass the bar the first time. Last year we had
Justice Kennedy as a visiting scholar for a week. I sat in a
Contracts class just 10 feet from a US Supreme Court Justice
while he taught and took questions. The year before that it was
Justice Ginsburg. A quality legal education may be possible at
an Internet law school but the statistics don't support it.
(How are you doing on the baby bar study? Think you will pass it
the second time around?) I laugh when I see that CA regs require
only 1 ABA graduate on the staff of a non-ABA law school. Not
sure how it is at other ABA schools but our faculty is 100% ABA
grads and to get tenure you have to have a post-JD degree in
some related field and publish in respected journals or more
often publish a book or two. In some classes the professor is
the author of our text book. Several federal and state judges
are adjunct professors. Sorry friend but a legal education is
more than a multiple choice exam and a hand full of lecture
CDs. “Performance counts” in class and behind the lectern.
(hope I’m not using too many big words for you)

I agree that some people may need the option of Internet study.
Fine – but why must it be from an institution that has a faculty
better suited for fast food service than teaching law.

You Sir are an angry young man who needs to compensate for his
failures by creating a fantasy world that you defend like fool.
You can do that on the Internet but not in a real law school
which is why you’re not in a real school. (despite your 162 LSAT
and 3.75 GPA; heh, heh sure I believe you) I understand that
your Tourette Syndrome puts you at a disadvantage, your episodes
are forgivable especially since you have three or four full time
jobs, a heavy calendar of cases in tax court or wherever it is
you can practice without a license, plus you have a full time
law school schedule and have to make a dozen or so vehement
posts on this board a week. Hey guy---You’re a joke. Don’t
you realize that?