What education is needed to become a Lawyer in SC?
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You need to have a Bachelor's Degree - Criminal Justice is just fine, as is Education, Philosophy, Nursing, or just about anything else.\n\nThen you need to take the LSAT and get accepted by an ABA  [American Bar Association] accredited law school. In South Carolina I think USC is the only one. However, there are plenty of other law schools throughout the USA.\n\nGraduate from law school, pass the SC bar examination, get hired as a prosecutor somewhere, even if in some rural area, and after a few years go out on your own.\n\nGood luck to you
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Most of our politicians are lawyers. Study history and political science, sociology and communication skills as an undergrad. Then go to law school. Then work for a Senator,  Congressman or Supreme Court Justice and/or get hired onto an election campaign or two. Then run for office in your city or state.
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Dear Kurt,  you can learn all there is you need to become a lawyer, but it would be most difficult to do it on your own--there are approximately 30 different areas of the law you need, the big six are Torts, Criminal Law, Contracts, Property, Civil Procedure, Constitutional law.  Then you need to learn the rules of Evidence, areas of law like estates and trusts, family law, UCC/Sales/secured transactions/negotiable instruments, domestic relations/family law, income taxation, federal jurisdiction, legal ethics, trial procedure, and so forth.  You would also need to learn about legal reasoning, legal writing (including the way pleadings are drafted, how to write legal briefs, how to draft appellate pleadings), how to read and brief a case.  \n\nAnd you would have to do all this using a full legal library to find and get the cases to read--law is taught by directed reading of cases that set forth the so-called "black letter" law.  It is not done by lecture (in most schools).  To do it on your own would be time consuming and perhaps not so fruitful because there are many cases reported in the law reporters that are not suitable for learning what the law is.  \n\nMoreover, most states still require you to go to law school before you can get a license.  So, you are not avoiding the cost of going to school.  Those states that don't require a degree, usually require some school and working like an apprentice for a licensed attorney.  I think only California allows a license by correspondence schools.  Perhaps now with internet learning there are some schools that offer a law degree online.  \n\nYou would do better to find a grant or student loan and enroll in a law school...Also they are pretty particular--you need and undergraduate degree, a decent grade point average and reasonably good scores on the LSAT to be admitted.\n--Lawyer here and instructor in a college....
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Law Degree does not come under distance education you have to join college anyway to persue law.\n\nThe best college is Government College of Law which is situated at Churchgate\n\nMithibai college is evening college
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You need to pass the bar in the state in which you want to practice. This generally requires going to law school.
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Yes, however they must first be able to sit for and pass a US state bar exam before they are allowed to practice in any state.  Most times a foreign lawyer goes to a US law school and gets a LLM degree first.
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First you need a bachelors degree (doesn't matter what in) which takes about 4 years if you go full time...then you apply to law school.  Depending on the school, it is about 2 years, if you go full time.
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This is pretty interesting...in South Carolina a common-law marriage is established if a man and woman intend for others to believe they are married.\n\nSouth Carolina\n\nThe criteria for a common law marriage is: (1) when two parties have a present intent (usually, but not necessarily, evidenced by a public and unequivocal declaration) to enter into a marriage contract; and (2) "a mutual agreement between the parties to assume toward each other the relation of husband and wife." See Tarnowski v. Lieberman (S.C. Ct. App. 2002). The minimum age for such a marriage is sixteen years-old as established by South Carolina Code of Laws 20-1-100 (2004).
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u do first complete your graduation in law ( LLB )\nregister yourself in the bar council at the place where u want to practice as a lawyer
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Every state bar is every different.  Some states not only require that you complete law school but that you complete law school from an American Bar Association Accredited School (which most are).  Some other states, however, still allow you to "read the law" which is essentially to take the bar and pass it after working with an attorney.  Most states no longer allow this.  Some tradition rich states, like Virginia, still allow it because as a matter of fact institutionalized legal education is only about 100 years old - so most of America's great legal scholars of the 18th and 19th century never attended law school.  Reading the law is sort of a throwback to those days and is more history/tradition than anything.  As a practical matter you could probably count on one hand the number of lawyers practiving today that did not attend law school.
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A two year college, such as a community college or Junior college will provide you with an Associates degree.\n\nA four year college or university provides you with a Bachelors degree.\n\nAfter you earn your Bachelors degree, you can then work on your Master's degree. \n\nYou can then go from your Master's degree to your Post Grad or Doctorates. (PHD or Juris <spelling??> Doctorates for Law.)\n\nHope it helps.  Happy school hunting!!
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same as any attorney.\n\nLaw school.
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You need to do several things to become a lawyer.  First, you have to go to law school after college.  Law school is 3 years.  Then, you have to take and pass an examination (called the bar exam) in most states.  (A few states allow graduates of their own law school to skip the exam.) After you pass the bar exam, you apply to the Supreme Court of the state in which you want to practice law, Florida in your case.  You have to show that you have never been convicted of a crime, that you are not bankrupt, etc.  Once you have passed the bar exam and your application is approved, you take an oath and can practice law in that state.\n\nSalaries vary a lot for young lawyers.  Starting salaries in the biggest cities for the most-sought-after graduated can be well over $100,000, but this is VERY unusual.  This kind of money is paid by a relatively few large law firms who hire only the best-qualified graduates of the most highly rated law schools in the country.  These are, roughly speaking, the Ivy Leage law schools (Harvard, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Cornell), plus other top-notch law schools like Duke, Stanford, the Universities of Michigan, Chicago, California, Texas and Virginia, and a few others.  \n\nMost new law school graduates earn far less than that.  Moreover, many take jobs in government and elsewhere that are not strictly lawyer's jobs.  Some go to work for public interest groups representing poor people or working on civil liberties issues.  These lawyers earn small incomes but get great personal satisfaction.  Of course, some new lawyers go out on their own, "hanging up a shingle" and seeking out clients.\n\nLocations?  There are lawyers in every town large enough to have a courthouse.  But most of the jobs, and all of the highest paying ones, are in large cities.\n\nGood luck!  And keep your grades up.  The best law schools take only the best undergraduate students.
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Law School takes three years if you attend full time.  You cannot enter Law School until you have earned a Bachelor Decree from College which typically takes four years.
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Normally, a Masters degree in Social Work.  To get into this type of program, usually you would need an undergraduate degree in social sciences (if not Social Work) and related volunteer or work experience.  See information about this type of program at the link below.
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Why?  Are you considering going to law school?  it's a long, long road.  Some states let you bypass the law school requirement.  For instance, California will waive the law school requirement if you have done 5 years of a qualified legal internship.  Otherwise, three years of law school is required.  Undergraduate degree is a usual prerequisite to getting into law school (again, there are some minor exceptions.)\n\nI am a California lawyer.  Feel free to contact me with any questions/advice you may have.
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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