Kaplan College-Concord Law School Juris Doctor

 
 

Kaplan College-Concord Law School Juris Doctor

Kaplan College-Concord Law School - Juris Doctor

  
Kaplan College-Concord Law School
Juris Doctor 		 
Objectives

-Develops the students' abilities, skills, and perspectives in legal fundamentals, professional and practical skills, and critical thinking skills.
-Develops the skills required to (1) analyze a client's presenting legal dilemma across a wide range of legal disciplines; (2) research applicable case, statutory, and regulatory law; (3) develop an appropriate legal strategy to resolve the problem; (4) fully represent clients; and (5) understand the responsibility to comport themselves at all times with civility towards the court and bar, upholding their moral and ethical duties as lawyers.
-Prepares students to pass the bar examination, in California first and other states as allowed under bar admissions rules, and practice law as a licensed attorney.

Individuals seeking to practice law and develop the greatest range of career opportunities should enroll in the Juris Doctor Program.

Graduates are eligible to apply to sit for the California bar examination. Upon passing the bar examination and fulfilling other statutory requirements, graduates become eligible to practice law in the State of California. Concord's Juris Doctor alumni may also apply to practice before most federal and other governmental agencies. In addition, graduates may be eligible to practice before the United States Supreme Court after three years of practice. Graduates desiring to practice in other states may be eligible under reciprocity or admission by examination rules. These rules are unique to each state.

Beyond the traditional practice of law, a licensed attorney has the knowledge, skills and credentials for employment in a broad spectrum of career opportunities.
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Concord Law School is the first institution to offer a Juris Doctor (JD) degree earned wholly online via state-of-the-art technology. With the latest Internet-adaptive technologies, the Concord program offers excellent course instruction combined with maximum flexibility, specifically designed to fit into today's busy lifestyles. Most people cannot afford the time and resources required to make higher education their only priority. Concord understands this and provides the perfect platform to make higher education accessible for individuals with the ability and motivation to succeed.

Concord provides a rigorous and comprehensive legal education with a personalized curriculum and study program leading to a Juris Doctor (JD) degree or an Executive JDSM. Instruction is both highly theoretical and highly practical, emphasizing a critical understanding of how law functions in society as well as a practical knowledge of how lawyers function within the legal system.

Since opening in the fall of 1998, Concord has pioneered the delivery of high quality legal education on the Internet. The school serves working professionals, family caretakers, and others whose circumstances may prevent them from pursuing a legal education at a fixed facility law school. The typical student is in his or her mid-career with an undergraduate GPA of 3.0. More than 1,700 students are currently enrolled at Concord, including alumni of such prestigious universities as Columbia, Harvard, Yale, MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, Duke, and the University of Chicago. More than one third of the students already hold advanced degrees. Students hail from all U.S. states and 13 other countries and 78 percent reside outside of California.

Concord's diverse student body includes: educators, small business owners, CEOs, physicians, bankers, pilots, police officers, retired and active military officers, city planners, nurses, compliance analysts, dentists, consultants, accountants, sales representatives, engineers, real estate developers, stay-at-home parents, family caregivers, and others whose family and/or work obligations have made Concord Law School the right choice for them.

Concord Law School is approved as a degree-granting institution in the State of California by the Bureau of Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education. Approval means the law school and its operation comply with standards established by California law for private postsecondary institutions.

Concord's unique method of delivering instruction- via the Internet without a fixed classroom facility -places it in the correspondence school category under California law. While the California Committee of Bar Examiners and the American Bar Association do not accredit correspondence schools, the California Committee of Bar Examiners registers correspondence schools. Concord Law School is registered with the California Committee of Bar Examiners permitting its graduates to apply for admission to the California Bar.

Additionally, Concord is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). The DETC Accrediting Commission is listed by the U.S. Department of Education as a nationally recognized accrediting agency and is a recognized member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

The DETC Accrediting Commission is one of fourteen higher education accrediting bodies recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Incorporated into the DETC's accrediting process is the concept that educational programs delivered at a distance should be comparable (in curriculum and outcomes) to those offered by accredited traditional residential universities. DETC accredited institutions and their programs are evaluated on this basis within its published educational and ethical business standards.

DETC, 1601 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009, 202-234-5100, www.detc.org