{"id":341,"date":"2013-09-14T06:59:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T06:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendanconley.com\/barexam\/?p=341"},"modified":"2015-06-26T23:27:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T03:27:21","slug":"becoming-lawyer-without-law-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendanconley.com\/barexam\/becoming-lawyer-without-law-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a Lawyer Without Law School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendanconley.com\/barexam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AbrahamLincoln.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-342\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brendanconley.com\/barexam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AbrahamLincoln-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"Abraham Lincoln\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brendanconley.com\/barexam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AbrahamLincoln-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/brendanconley.com\/barexam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AbrahamLincoln.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a>Did you know that you can become a lawyer without going to law school? Four states &#8212; California, Vermont, Virginia and Washington &#8212; provide for people to become lawyers by &#8220;reading the law,&#8221; studying as an apprentice under the guidance of an attorney or a judge.\u00a0 One advantage of this approach is the tremendous amount of money saved on law school tuition.<\/p>\n<p>Reading the law is not new. It was the primary way for people to become lawyers in the U.S. up until the late nineteenth century. Abraham Lincoln became a lawyer by independently reading the law, and he was an advocate of that method of learning.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, visit The Apprenticeship Journals at <a href=\"http:\/\/likelincoln.org\" target=\"_blank\">LikeLincoln.org<\/a>, a blog about becoming a lawyer without going to law school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that you can become a lawyer without going to law school? Four states &#8212; California, Vermont, Virginia and Washington &#8212; provide for people to become lawyers by &#8220;reading the law,&#8221; studying as an apprentice under the guidance of an attorney or a judge.\u00a0 One advantage of this approach is the tremendous amount &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendanconley.com\/barexam\/becoming-lawyer-without-law-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Becoming a Lawyer Without Law School<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apprenticeship","category-law-school"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RHAF-5v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendanconley.com\/barexam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendanconley.com\/barexam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendanconley.com\/barexam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendanconley.com\/barexam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendanconley.com\/barexam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brendanconley.com\/barexam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/brendanconley.com\/barexam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendanconley.com\/barexam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendanconley.com\/barexam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendanconley.com\/barexam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}