Saturday, May 4, 2019

Attorney Apprenticeship in Nine States; Who Knew?

Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858-1925)


Information Re: Attorney Apprenticeships

To eliminate student debt it helps if one does not go into it in the first place...I am talking to myself, of course.

Below are some links to aid in becoming an attorney without a bill from a law school. Abraham Lincoln did it like this:
In addition, this site offers information about apprentices and mentors.

www.facebook.com/groups/apprenticingtobecomealawyer/

This Facebook page is operated by the Sustainable Economies Law Center and is a great way to network with like minded individuals interested in Law.

      Nine states allow Do-It-Yourselfers to establish Attorney Apprenticeships. Four of them require one year of study with an ABA school. This means one thing: you must have passed the dreaded Law School Admission Test (LSAT) to even get started. However, one year of a distance law school can prepare someone to get in gear for the LSAT exam. There are plenty of law training companies eagerly waiting for business, so look alive when you request any tutoring or prepping.

     All 201 law schools that belong to the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) are under the umbrella of this organization. The LSAT is comprised of four component parts including: A)Analytical Reasoning, B) Logical Reasoning, C) Reading Comprehension and D) The Writing Sample. Each section is tested in 35 minute segments. There are even watches available to wear so a person can practice taking the practice exams, that actually have 35 minute count-down features so the student can prepare how it feels to work with the allotted time constraints of the test.  
The purpose of this is to teach the prospective student how to work under pressure.
 

      The nine states are: Alaska, California, Maine, New York, Vermont, West Virginia, Virginia, Maine, and Wyoming. Each state has rules that vary but those rules can be easily attained by searching for attorney apprenticeship under the government heading. Mind you, this plan will only work if a person is highly disciplined and self-motivated.

      If a person has had one year of law school there are ways of attaining work by joining an organization of Legal Document Assistants. This employment places a person into a directory (for a fee) whereby they are allowed to do legal research or other designated tasks that a full-blown attorney office could be too busy or too costly to proceed with.

      For those of us who love the study of law, perhaps we have encountered some great minds sleuthing through Sherlock Holmes or Charlie Chan movies. One old B&W movie leads to another with some fabulous courtroom dramas that should not be misses. My source is YouTube.com or Turner Classic Movies.

      Should you share your love of law with the love of the arts, there is a tremendous collection of art and articles available online: www.nycourts.gov/history 
(location of the Willard Leroy Metcalf painting found when searching for Lady Justice.)

      Your comments are always welcome & I would like to invite legal minds to please contact me about submitting to this blog. Contact through website: BrandingByPeg.com Thank you.