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Q. I've read through many of the past threads regarding Concord University. I am still considering an education there since it really is the only option given my financial and time constraints. For me there is really no other way to go to law school. The alternative is to not pursue it at all. If there is little value in graduating from Concord (I live in NJ)then I would choose not to pursue. I would love to hear any opinions from this group. If there are current Concord or other distance learning law school students reading this ng I would value your thoughts as well. Do I need to sit for the bar? What doors does a JD open without sitting for a state bar exam? If I graduate from Concord and 2years later they become accredited, am I still eleigible to sit for any bar?

A. They are DETC accredited. Imho, this doesn't mean a whole lot (look through the list of DETC candidates to see why I feel that way). But it is worth something. Well, what you need to find out is: does getting this degree from this school enable you to sit for the NJ bar exam? If not, is that something that matters to you? There are a lot of schools in California that allow one to sit for California's bar, but not the bar in other states. The site doesn't specifically mention New Jersey, but you may find admission to the California Bar all you need (if you practice, for example, primarily in federal court). See also: http://www.concord.kaplan.edu/careerplanning.htm Also, going to a school that may not be regionally accredited may hurt your chances of getting into a law firm that pays better -- so, in the long run, the more "expensive" degree may be a better investment. In order to practice law as a lawyer, you'd need to sit for the bar in the state you wish to represent clients in court. Typically, that's the state you're living in. What requirements get you to that point depend, to some extent, on the state. That said, there are a lot of uses for law degrees that don't involve being a lawyer. One correction to what Dierdre wrote: The relevant issue with law school isn't 'regional' accreditation, it's American Bar Association (ABA) accreditation. Peter, check the archives on this group at deja.com, and at degreeinfo.com. Much discourse has been devoted to the issue of DL law schools on both forums over the past few years. There are many regionally accredited law schools that are not ABA approved (with teh ABA, the term is approval, not accreditation). These will be found primarily in the few non-ABA states that still exist. California is an obvious case; an example would be the Trinity International University Law School, which is accredited by North Central (since TIU's main campus is in Deerfield, IL), but not the ABA. Another example that comes to mind is the Jones School of Law at the SACS-accredited Faulkner University in Alabama, since Alabama is another non-ABA state. There is no indication that one receives an inferior legal education from a regionally accredited, non-ABA approved law school, but the reality is that if one graduates from such a school, it will be difficult-to-impossible to gain admission to the bar in states requiring an ABA-approved legal education. ANd, both at this point and in the future, it is unlikely that *any* distance legal education program at the J.D. level will become ABA approved.

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