Can a Lawyer who just graduated and pass the bar start his or her own practice ?
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Absolutely.\n\nAnd, usually they are the most 'aggressive' attorneys being that they have to pay off their student loans from college.  Unlike their counterparts who get employed by large law firms, single-lawyer practitioners can be under considerably pressure to develop a practice as quickly as possible.\n\nOn the downside, while an attorney fresh out of law school and passing the Bar who is working alone sounds promising, larger law firms can easily trump such an attorney due to the fact that the larger law firms have considerably more seasoned attorneys and legal resources at hand -- it would be an uphill battle for the newcomer at best.
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I believe California is the only state that allows persons to prepare for the Bar using alternatives to the traditional law school.  California allows for home study or correspondence courses (one of which is, I believe, on-line), and tutelage by a lawyer in a law office.  There are prescribed requirements for both.  The correspondence school must keep all papers, etc.  Both methods require the student to take and pass the California First Year Law Students Exam.  (Which is also required of students at non-ABA accredited law schools).\n\nBoth methods usually take a minimum of four years.\n\nThe Bar may have numbers of how many start the programs.  I can tell you that the number who finish and take the Bar is very very small,  maybe three or four correspondence students a year, and maybe one who went the apprentice route every five or six years.  The number who pass the Bar is nearly nil.  One correspondence student passes about every three or four years.  The rest just take the Bar over and over and over.\n\nEach state's reciprocity with any other state is based on individual laws passed by each state.  In general, however, most states will not grant reciprocity to an attorney who went to a non-ABA accredited law school (or didn't go to law school at all)
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One of the most growing fields is intellectual property.  However, in order to get a job most firms want you to have a bachelors in engineering or a natural science.  Property law and family law are both fields that should have a market no matter where you live.  Don't worry about what type of law you want to practice til you get there - you won't know enough about it until you actually start learning law.  I'm almost done with my first year, and I still have no clue!!  And you can always change fields later on in your career.  Good luck!
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Most attorneys are member of the state bar (lawyer) association.  Search for your state and bar asssociation for the site for your state bar.  It normally list their school and when they passed the exam to practice law in your state.
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4 years full time college for your undergraduate degree\n3 years (days) or 4 years (nights) law school\n\nTotal 7 to 8 years\n\nLaw school does not teach you how to be a lawyer, only what you need to know about the history of the law and present developments so that you can pass the state bar exam.  \n\nYou may be able to select a few elective courses during your law school career that may be of particular interest to you, but you will not be taught a specialty.  That you can only learn on the job.  There are small, medium and large law firms, sole practitioners, in-house corporate attorneys of every type and kind, and government attorneys...the possibilities are endless.  GOOD LUCK!
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Actually, you don't have to even have a degree to be a lawyer. You just have to pass the bar exam. Good luck doing that without goint to law school. To go to law school, you need a bachelors degree usually. Abraham lincoln was a lawyer, yet he didn't even graduate high school. Of course that was 150+ years ago.
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Do well in high school, then go to college. It does NOT matter what you major in, although many lawyers major in history, political science, and such.  Plenty of them major in the sciences, languages, or other areas. \n\n On graduation, enter into law school (3 years).  Then take the bar exam for the state where you want to practice.  If you pass, you are admitted to the bar, and you are a lawyer.\n\nGood luck!!
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Check with your local county (or state) bar association.\n\nMany attorneys are willing to do pro bono work to satisfy their bar requirements.\n\nOnline advice is usally not a good idea however, because the lawyer who answers may not be licensed to practice in your particular state, and thus may not be applying the correct law.
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If you attend a law school on a full-time basis, it should take you 3 years to finish the academic requirements for your Juris Doctorate (JD).\n\nThe pay depends considerably on the field of law that you choose. Top-tier law firms hire the best and brightest of law school graduates at very high salaries - smaller firms pay far less - mom and pop shops pay even less - as do public defenders and state attorneys offices - non-profit organizations and public interest groups can pay almost nothing. Then there are corporations - most major corporations have in-house legal divisions that work with outside counsel to help a company with its day-to-day operations and assist with lawsuits.\n\nThink VERY carefully before you decide to attend law school. You can EASILY accumulate more than $100,000 in debt in those three years - and you'll need a very well paying job to retire that kind of loan. If you're not at the top of your class, you won't be starting out making a ton of money, although the opportunity might well present itself once you've become established.\n\nFor most attorneys, the practice of law is extremely time-consuming, especially in the early years, when you're first starting out.\n\nNever choose a profession because it seems like a good way to "make a lot of money." Choose a profession because it's something you'd like to think you can enjoy doing for the rest of your life.\n\nP.S.: Assuming that it takes you a standard 4 years to finish your undergraduate degree (though that seems to be less and less common these days), it will take you at least 7 years to complete the requirements for a JD. Once you have completed law school, you must study for, and pass your state's bar exam - most law school graduates complete the bar exam preparation during the summer immediately following the completion of law school coursework.\n\nAlso keep in mind that law school admission is highly competitive at most schools (particularly the good ones!), and graduate study (MBA, etc.) is sometimes considered a strong plus for a law school applicant. If you were to elect this route, you would have to add at least another 2 years of schooling to earn a masters, or some other advanced credential.
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same as any attorney.\n\nLaw school.
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do you mean law? Well you cannot practice if you have obtained the law degree without attending regular classes, that is the Bar Council of India's regulation. You should stop immediately if you are studying to practice law in courts.
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You have to go to four years of college, major in anything but political science is good, then pass a law school entrance exam, get accepted into a law school which takes three years to complete, then sit for the bar, which means you have to pass the bar exam.  After you pass the bar, you get sworn in and you are then a lawyer.\nYou have to pass the bar for each state that you want to practice.
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Well, anything is possible but I cannot predict the chances of success.  Your are dealing with two separate issues.  The first issue is whether you can become an attorney with a felony conviction.  It really depends on the type of conviction.  Most state bar organizations do moral character screening and people who have been convicted of "crimes of moral turpitude" will get a hard look.  It's not an automatic disqualifier in most jurisdictions.\n\nI know of one attorney in California who lost his license to practice law because of a nasty cocaine habit.  He got cleaned up and has been reinstated.\n\nThe second question whether you can get HIRED as defense attorney.  Your ocnviction is public record and could show up in a background search.  The decision to hire is up to the employer, whether it be the public defender's office or a private criminal defense law firm.
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you need to complete school and write an entrance exam for admission to law school and then four years of study in the law college make you a lawyer.
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how about becoming a lawyer, it would't take as long
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If you want a law degree that will actually allow you to practice law in the United States, you should look solely at ABA law schools. \nHere in the States, actually practicing law requires that you take (and pass) a 'bar exam' after completing law school (you actually take a portion of the exam while still in law school, but the big part is after). These exams are administered on a state level, so that if you want to practice law in California, you must pass the California bar exam. Some states have what is called reciprocity that makes it so states will accept a bar exam  score(or a certain amount of legal experience) from another state. You can find out about a state's reciprocity bydoing a quick search, or visiting the website for that state's bar assosciation. \nThe problem with non-ABA schools is that only two or three states will even allow you to take the bar exam unless you attend an ABA accredited law school. That said two of those states are California and Florida. You should look at the bar pass rates for the schools as well, since unless you pass the bar you can't practice law in the states.\nIf you do end up having to take the LSAT I have heaps of advice on that (I scored in the 99.9th percentile).\nyoungnedofthehill@yahoo.com
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To call yourself a lawyer in the US you have to pass your state's Bar Exam which is a pretty brutal test. I suppose it would be possible to get through it without going to school but most people--- and I mean pretty much all of them--- go to law school, which you can't get into without a 4-year college degree.  Without passing the Bar exam, you can call yourself an "advocate" or "advisor" or such but you won't make nearly the money that a lawyer does.